The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 2 letter word UP
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More clues leading to the result UP
- Modern university head traps fox in St Andrews
- Plastic put on patio in part
- Likely to be successful at university with arrival
- Winter festival organised à la Yule around hostelry
- Put out duck with fruit that's fresh
- Fluctuating, with NI county ahead at first
- Modern refurbishment of auto dept
- Have unsettling effect on writer chasing university degree, initially
- From remote areas: patriotic slogan?
- Fluctuating throughout
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What does UP mean?
UP noun- The direction opposed to the pull of gravity.
- A positive thing.
- An upstairs room of a two story house.
- To increase or raise.
- To promote.
- (usually in combination with another verb) To act suddenly.
- To ascend; to climb up.
- To upload.
- Facing upwards.
- On or at a physically higher level.
- Headed, or designated to go, upward, as an escalator, stairway, elevator etc.
- Fitted or fixed at a high or relatively high position, especially on a wall or ceiling.
- Aloft.
- Raised; lifted.
- Built, constructed.
- Standing.
- Awake and out of bed.
- Riding the horse; mounted.
- (of the sun or moon) Above the horizon, in the sky.
- Larger; greater in quantity, volume, value etc.
- Indicating a larger or higher quantity.
- Ahead; leading; winning.
- Available; made public; posted.
- Finished, to an end
- In a good mood.
- (usually in the phrase up for) Willing; ready.
- Next in a sequence.
- (not used attributively) Happening; new; of concern. See also what's up with.
- (postnominal) Said of the higher-ranking pair in a two pair.
- Well-informed; current.
- Functional; working.
- (of a railway line or train) Traveling towards a major terminus.
- (bartending) Chilled and served without ice.
- Erect.
- (graffiti) well-known; renowned
- Away from the surface of the Earth or other planet; in opposite direction to the downward pull of gravity.
- To or at a physically higher or more elevated position.
- To a higher level of some quantity or notional quantity, such as price, volume, pitch, happiness, etc.
- To or in a position of equal advance or equality; not short of, back of, less advanced than, away from, etc.; usually followed by to or with.
- (intensifier) Used as an aspect marker to indicate a completed action or state; thoroughly, completely.
- To or from one's possession or consideration.
- North.
- Towards or at a central place, or any place that is visualised as 'up' by virtue of local features or local convention, or arbitrarily, irrespective of direction or elevation change.
- Towards the principal terminus, towards milepost zero.
- Aside, so as not to be in use.
- Against the wind or current.
- (Cartesian graph) In a positive vertical direction.
- Relatively close to the batsman.
- (bartending) Without additional ice.
- (academia) To university, especially to Cambridge or Oxford.
- Toward the top of.
- Toward the center, source, or main point of reference; toward the end at which something is attached.
- From south to north of.
- Further along (in any direction).
- From the mouth towards the source of (a river or waterway).
- Of a man: having sex with.
- At (a given place, especially one imagined to be higher or more distant from a central location).