The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word SPRAWL
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More clues leading to the result SPRAWL
- Records describing campaign returned to lounge
- Lounge lizard initially bends over
- Battles about retaining power over large urban development
- . Urban area seen as special by inexperienced learner
- Superman will occasionally sit in an ungainly manner
- Vacated shop lacking refinement and left urban area
- What stragglers do when inexperienced among top Scottish football clubs
- Records describing battles around urban aggregation?
- Stretch of lake twists to the north
- Area of expansion becomes distorted when up above lake
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The straight part
We know that "sit in an ungainly manner" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case sit in an ungainly manner = sprawl.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 SPRAWL mean?
SPRAWL noun- An ungainly sprawling posture.
- A straggling, haphazard growth, especially of housing on the edge of a city.
- To sit with the limbs spread out.
- To spread out in a disorderly fashion; to straggle.