The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word SAUNA
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More clues leading to the result SAUNA
- Bawd mostly admitted to it? It gets you hot and steamy
- Article in paper introducing a cleansing facility
- Having been cut with tool, they say, a bath in Finland
- Adult in blazer needing a bath
- A Spanish female with appeal? This’ll get hot
- Small gold top from Next and a sweater?
- Article on uni opening hospital in Bath
- Bum holding one back? One gets all steamed up
- Tabloid article about American in Finnish bath
- After dropping ecstasy, nausea’s awful in hot, humid place
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The straight part
We know that "cleansing facility" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case cleansing facility = sauna.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 SAUNA mean?
SAUNA noun- A room or a house designed for heat sessions.
- The act of using a sauna.
- A public sauna; a front for a brothel in some countries.
- To use a sauna.