The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word SWALLOWS
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result SWALLOWS
- Takes in Amazons’ enemies?
- Birds start to whistle in pussy willows
- Wide brooks bordering South Downs
- Accepts summer visitors
- Cornwall tolerates summer visitors
- Birds roll from side to side in swaying sycamore tops
- Seasonal visitors behave like hippos aboard ship
- Takes in summer visitors
- Reluctantly accepts criterion that summer has arrived?
- Naively accepts birds of passage
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The straight part
We know that "Takes in/summer visitors" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case takes in/summer visitors = swallows.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does SWALLOWS mean?
SWALLOWS noun- A deep chasm or abyss in the earth.
- The amount swallowed in one gulp; the act of swallowing.
- Any of various carbohydrate-based dishes that are swallowed without much chewing.
- To cause (food, drink etc.) to pass from the mouth into the stomach; to take into the stomach through the throat.
- To take (something) in so that it disappears; to consume, absorb.
- To take food down into the stomach; to make the muscular contractions of the oesophagus to achieve this, often taken as a sign of nervousness or strong emotion.
- To accept easily or without questions; to believe, accept.
- To engross; to appropriate; usually with up.
- To retract; to recant.
- To put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation.
- A small, migratory bird of the Hirundinidae family with long, pointed, moon-shaped wings and a forked tail which feeds on the wing by catching insects.
- The aperture in a block through which the rope reeves.