The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word PENINSULA
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result PENINSULA
- Alpine sun transformed narrow piece of land
- Writer, endlessly narrow-minded, in Korea, for one
- Alpine sun melted strip of land
- Writer, mostly aloof, develops narrow strip of land
- Writer in Australia retired acquiring long strip of land out to sea
- Cape corral not entirely closed
- Complex in Naples welcoming university in Calabria, say?
- Writer in Southern Universitycomposes Iberia
- Jutland, for example?
- Part of continent where Alpine sun’s unusual
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The straight part
We know that "‘one that sticks out on Earth’" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case ‘one that sticks out on earth’ = peninsula.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 PENINSULA mean?
PENINSULA noun- A piece of land projecting into water from a larger land mass.