The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word SEPULCHRE
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result SEPULCHRE
- Tomb’s dreadful curse — help!
- Lush crêpe put round burial place
- Vault helps cure invalid
- Repulse drunk going round church tomb
- Reuse front of plot set outside large church as burial place
- Grave suffering helps cure
- Tomb left in university church defended by doddery peers
- Where you may find dead end?
- Grave puzzle — Hercule Poirot's stumped in the beginning
- Grave start to suspenseful novel! Hercule Poirot’s debut
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What does SEPULCHRE mean?
SEPULCHRE noun- A burial chamber.
- A recess in some early churches in which the reserved sacrament, etc. were kept from Good Friday till Easter.
- To place in a sepulchre.