The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word CURTAIN
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result CURTAIN
- Drape with the end cut short?
- What guards privacy of endlessly corrupt scoundrel at first
- Hanging cut short, with length being new
- Brief dissembling is rare in a drama
- Fifty taken from dock, a certain number for hanging
- Former police upset reserves in cover
- Uri can’t bend screen
- One’s drawn a hound, one in brown
- Screen copper’s preliminary review of Scottish town
- Iron, say? It can be drawn
Buddy explains!
The straight part
We know that "hanging" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case hanging = curtain.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 CURTAIN mean?
CURTAIN noun- A piece of cloth covering a window, bed, etc. to offer privacy and keep out light.
- A similar piece of cloth that separates the audience and the stage in a theater.
- (by extension) The beginning of a show; the moment the curtain rises.
- (fortifications) The flat area of wall which connects two bastions or towers; the main area of a fortified wall.
- (also "final curtain") Death.
- That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc.
- A flag; an ensign.
- To cover (a window) with a curtain; to hang curtains.
- To hide, cover or separate as if by a curtain.