The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word MURAL
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More clues leading to the result MURAL
- Picture held up by popular umpire
- Wall painting left on a strange backing
- Picture motorway over Russian river?
- Work on wall shows Frenchman going over Russian river
- Ponder making cut around artist’s wall painting
- Elevated lords and ladies left an artwork
- Right for all to see replacement for round wall painting
- Painting that’s rarely framed artist put in stack upside-down?
- Tail-ender dismissed by spinner, familiarly – ‘wally’?
- What’s drawn up Russian river by mule at first
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What does MURAL mean?
MURAL noun- A large painting, usually drawn on a wall.
- To create a mural.
- Of or relating to a wall; on, or in, or against a wall.
- Resembling a wall; perpendicular or steep.