The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 plus 7 letter word KEYHOLE SURGERY
I've seen this crossword clue in The Sunday Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result KEYHOLE SURGERY
- Procedure whereby doctor gets some out of the door?
- Laparoscopy essential — her role Guy’s set out
- Remedial treatment for peeping Tom?
- Work in theatre performed with minimal cuts
- Operation that may allow access to skeleton?
- Medical intervention that’s important here’s roughly done exposing hospital?
- & 28a It provides scaled-down opening for theatre performance
- Medicine that’s advanced poorly Greek hourly? Yes
Buddy explains!
The straight part
We know that "Work in theatre performed with minimal cuts" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case work in theatre performed with minimal cuts = keyhole surgery.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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