Cryptic crossword clue
Women's stories where nurse is murdered with garden equipment 7

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word SHOVELS

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The straight part
We know that "garden equipment" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case garden equipment = shovels.
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 SHOVELS mean?

SHOVELS noun
  1. A hand tool with a handle, used for moving portions of material such as earth, snow, and grain from one place to another, with some forms also used for digging. Not to be confused with a spade, which is designed solely for small-scale digging and incidental tasks such as chopping of small roots.
  2. A spade.

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