The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word NILOTIC
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More clues leading to the result NILOTIC
- Relating to river — nothing to do with ears!
- Nothing to do with the ears of East African people
- This has nothing to do with the ears of an African people
- Nothing to do with the ear or to do with the river
- Love to back central pick of Egyptian languages
- Many in independent India found in North primarily claim to be related to an Egyptian valley
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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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