A middling cross, maybe (6)

I believe the answer is:

centre

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(Other definitions for centre that I've seen before include "See 7" , "See 24" , "'Things fall apart; the ... cannot hold' (Yeats)" , "Recent (anag)" , "Exact middle point" .)

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