The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word DRIVERS
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result DRIVERS
- Clubs and diamonds: bridge often going over these
- Right to be admitted to several clubs
- Clubs for motivators
- Seen on course down waterways
- Transport pilots in waterway linking delta and sierra
- They’re not for putting people behind wheels
- Motorists clubs
- People pushing for diamonds and flowers?
- Clubs with some deep waterways
- Golf clubs found finally next to streams
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The straight part
We know that "Transport pilots" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case transport pilots = drivers.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 DRIVERS mean?
DRIVERS noun- One who drives something, in any sense of the verb to drive.
- Something that drives something, in any sense of the verb to drive.
- A person who drives a motorized vehicle such as a car or a bus.
- A person who drives some other vehicle.
- A program that acts as an interface between an application and hardware, written specifically for the device it controls.
- A golf club used to drive the ball a great distance.
- A kind of sail, smaller than a fore and aft spanker on a square-rigged ship, a driver is tied to the same spars.
- A mallet.
- A tamping iron.
- A cooper's hammer for driving on barrel hoops.
- A screwdriver.