The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word SATYR
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More clues leading to the result SATYR
- Ancient deity was a tyrant to some extent
- Woodland creature upsets a tyrant to some extent
- Butterfly perched on the first down, regularly
- Lustful reveller’s day shortly before year ends
- Your escorts posed for Playboy?
- Some unsavoury task upset woodland deity
- God, for one Rector, will involve source of tension
- Very tasty piece raised spirit
- Lecher lines up at end of day
- Did model dishearten younger, lusty fellow?
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The straight part
We know that "Ancient deity" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case ancient deity = satyr.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does SATYR mean?
SATYR noun- A woodland creature with pointed ears, legs, and short horns of a goat and a fondness for unrestrained revelry.
- Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Faunis.
- A sylvan deity or demigod, male companion of Pan or Dionysus, represented as part man and part goat, and characterized by riotous merriment and lasciviousness, sometimes pictured with a perpetual erection.
- (by extension) A lecherous man.
- Any of various butterflies of the nymphalid subfamily Satyrinae, having brown wings marked with eyelike spots; a meadow brown.
- The orangutan.
- A woodland creature with pointed ears, legs, and short horns of a goat and a fondness for unrestrained revelry.
- Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Faunis.
- A sylvan deity or demigod, male companion of Pan or Dionysus, represented as part man and part goat, and characterized by riotous merriment and lasciviousness, sometimes pictured with a perpetual erection.
- (by extension) A lecherous man.
- Any of various butterflies of the nymphalid subfamily Satyrinae, having brown wings marked with eyelike spots; a meadow brown.
- The orangutan.