The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word CURVE
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More clues leading to the result CURVE
- Very penetrating remedy for wind
- A bit of Valium taken during therapy for locals of a theatrical bent?
- Dog taken to vet with no tail to bend
- About five get better in turn
- Turn recreation vehicle carrying cue? Or the other way round?
- Signal's red, vehicle beginning to make a turn
- Crook's ball — one that's difficult to hit?
- Solution is containing virus at the start of spiral!
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The straight part
We know that "for locals of a theatrical bent" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case for locals of a theatrical bent = curve.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 CURVE mean?
CURVE noun- A gentle bend, such as in a road.
- A simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line.
- A grading system based on the scale of performance of a group used to normalize a right-skewed grade distribution (with more lower scores) into a bell curve, so that more can receive higher grades, regardless of their actual knowledge of the subject.
- A continuous map from a one-dimensional space to a multidimensional space.
- A one-dimensional figure of non-zero length; the graph of a continuous map from a one-dimensional space.
- An algebraic curve; a polynomial relation of the planar coordinates.
- A one-dimensional continuum.
- (usually in the plural) The attractive shape of a woman's body.
- To bend; to crook.
- To cause to swerve from a straight course.
- To bend or turn gradually from a given direction.
- To grade on a curve (bell curve of a normal distribution).
- To reject, to turn down romantic advances.
- Bent without angles; crooked; curved.