The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word TRANSIT
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More clues leading to the result TRANSIT
- Feature about pair of Poles in shipping, say
- Passage from feature about northern society
- Vehicles lowering current time for journey
- Tons raced to take a seat for crossing
- Bird coming round managed second journey
- Travel partners occupying property
- Non-smoker as part of characteristic passage
- Poles carried in characteristic conveyance
- Passage shortly starting off
- Feature constraining bridge partners is passing
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The straight part
We know that "crossing" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case crossing = transit.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 TRANSIT mean?
TRANSIT noun- The act of passing over, across, or through something.
- The conveyance of people or goods from one place to another, especially on a public transportation system; the vehicles used for such conveyance.
- The passage of a celestial body across the observer's meridian, or across the disk of a larger celestial body.
- A surveying instrument rather like a theodolite that measures horizontal and vertical angles.
- An imaginary line between two objects whose positions are known. When the navigator sees one object directly in front of the other, the navigator knows that his position is on the transit.
- A Ford Transit van, see Transit.
- Public transport system.
- To pass over, across or through something.
- To revolve an instrument about its horizontal axis so as to reverse its direction.
- To make a transit.
- To carry communications traffic to and from a customer or another network on a compensation basis as opposed to peerage in which the traffic to and from another network is carried on an equivalency basis or without charge.