The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 10 letter word CALIFORNIA
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More clues leading to the result CALIFORNIA
- African oil's fluid state
- Replace heads of old left in African state
- State of Carolina, if under review
- Peeling paint, profit slack, upset, in a state
- State of eastern potentate worried on air
- African oil processed in the US
- Newly-developed African oil state
- State refining African oil
- Carolina, if reformed can become The Golden State
- Hide Arab's first letter in grain in a state in America
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