The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 plus 6 letter word GOLF COURSE
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More clues leading to the result GOLF COURSE
- What's close to hotel, with rough-sounding green expanse?
- . Gee, it’s obvious learner must be included in links?
- Government absolutely should embrace Liberal links
- Habitat for game beginning to grow naturally around lake
- Whip back dish which is full of greens
- Crack cryptic clues for round on this?
- Front of garage, for sure, including large area for drivers
- Good learner naturally has admitted driving’s done here
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The straight part
We know that "green expanse" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case green expanse = golf course.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.
Sadly, We don't have an explanation for this specific crossword clue yet.