The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word STRIDES
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result STRIDES
- Outfits about to transport free trousers to Oz
- Teams crossing middle of district in steps
- Banks on getting temperature right inside trousers
- Pants once tested on board ship
- Hears director invested after section walks
- On board ship, tourist’s opening travel bags
- Extremely short journeys — walks!
- Takes long steps in street, then trips
- Walks when street is up
- Send up groups covering Free and Steps
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The straight part
We know that "Takes long steps" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case takes long steps = strides.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 STRIDES mean?
STRIDES verb- To walk with long steps.
- To stand with the legs wide apart; to straddle.
- To pass over at a step; to step over.
- To straddle; to bestride.
- A long step in walking.
- The distance covered by a long step.
- The number of memory locations between successive elements in an array, pixels in a bitmap, etc.
- A jazz piano style of the 1920s and 1930s. The left hand characteristically plays a four-beat pulse with a single bass note, octave, seventh or tenth interval on the first and third beats, and a chord on the second and fourth beats.
- Trousers.