The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word STRANGEST
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More clues leading to the result STRANGEST
- Son called during trial — most odd
- Most unusual oven, in two ways
- In two ways, compass is most unorthodox
- Most extraordinary spectrum observed in Stone Street
- Most abnormal stretch between pathways
- Most rum no good, drunk tasters admitted
- Most unusual province between two streets
- Most distant area of open land has street on both sides
- Oddest pair of saints carrying stove
- Dual carriageway over sierra is most unnatural
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The straight part
We know that "most odd" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case most odd = strangest.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does STRANGEST mean?
STRANGEST adjective- Not normal; odd, unusual, surprising, out of the ordinary.
- Unfamiliar, not yet part of one's experience.
- Having the quantum mechanical property of strangeness.
- Of an attractor: having a fractal structure.
- Belonging to another country; foreign.
- Reserved; distant in deportment.
- Backward; slow.
- Not familiar; unaccustomed; inexperienced.
- Not belonging to one.