The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word ARTERY
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More clues leading to the result ARTERY
- Possibly painting European railway route
- Queen aboard pretentious vessel
- Main road with some reversing tyre tracks
- Personal vessel among smarter yachts
- Queen carried in pretentiously refined vessel
- Some tyre tracks traced back in main road
- Queen contributed to cultural channel
- The way to one’s heart? Quite the opposite!
- Cockney’s hound biting overturned alien vessel
- Something that could be clogged in a foreign network before turn of year
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What does ARTERY mean?
ARTERY noun- An efferent blood vessel from the heart, conveying blood away from the heart regardless of oxygenation status; see pulmonary artery.
- A major transit corridor.