The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word MEANDER
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result MEANDER
- Tinker holds a leisurely course
- Wind, destructive at the outset, coming in closer
- Turn nasty before claret served up
- Repairman goes round a circuitous route
- Snake found in Rome and Eritrea
- Near bloody revolting snake
- Nasty red-backed snake
- Fixer full of limitless gas and wind
- Nasty round scarlet snake
- Poor Edna embarrassed about having wind
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What does MEANDER mean?
MEANDER noun- A decorative border constructed from a continuous line, shaped into a repeated motif, that is commonly found in Greek art.
- A structural motif in proteins consisting of four adjacent antiparallel strands and their linking loops.
- One of the turns of a winding, crooked, or involved course.
- A tortuous or intricate movement.
- One of a series of regular sinuous curves, bends, loops, turns, or windings in the channel of a river, stream, or other watercourse
- Fretwork.
- Perplexity.
- A self-avoiding closed curve which intersects a line a number of times.
- To wind or turn in a course or passage; to be intricate.
- To wind, turn, or twist; to make flexuous.