The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word BROAD
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More clues leading to the result BROAD
- In the tolerant fashion of one planning Norfolk holiday?
- Secondary thoroughfare of some width
- Liberal British newsman pursues fake diamond
- Liberal protested, following less travelled path?
- Not a major thoroughfare? That’s obvious
- Wide secondary route?
- Wide this route is not!
- Minor artery supplying East Anglian waterway
- Open highway of minor importance
- Thick brown line on map
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The straight part
We know that "wide" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case wide = broad.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 BROAD mean?
BROAD noun- A shallow lake, one of a number of bodies of water in eastern Norfolk and Suffolk.
- A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders.
- A British gold coin worth 20 shillings, issued by the Commonwealth of England in 1656.
- Wide in extent or scope.
- Extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full.
- Having a large measure of any thing or quality; unlimited; unrestrained.
- Comprehensive; liberal; enlarged.
- Plain; evident.
- (writing) Unsubtle; obvious.
- Free; unrestrained; unconfined.
- Gross; coarse; indelicate.
- (of an accent) Strongly regional.
- (Gaelic languages) Velarized, i.e. not palatalized.
- A prostitute, a woman of loose morals.
- (sometimes obsolete) A woman or girl.