The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word REAR
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More clues leading to the result REAR
- Drive into Split, fencing off some land
- Behind Republican listener
- Start to repair each split, having hit a vehicle
- Rare new breed
- Breed behind tower
- Bottom, come up
- Assistance for drivers unable to identify the way forward
- BottomĀ on a chair in the end
- Unfortunate wanderer, ducking head, gets hit on the back
- Hinder/ nurse
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The straight part
We know that "Behind" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case behind = rear.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does REAR mean?
REAR verb- To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster.
- (said of people towards animals) To breed and raise.
- To rise up on the hind legs
- (usually with "up") To get angry.
- To rise high above, tower above.
- To raise physically or metaphorically; to lift up; to cause to rise, to elevate.
- To construct by building; to set up
- To raise spiritually; to lift up; to elevate morally.
- To lift and take up.
- To rouse; to strip up.
- To move; stir.
- (of geese) To carve.
- (regional, obsolete) To revive, bring to life, quicken. (only in the phrase, to rear to life)
- (of eggs) Underdone; nearly raw.
- (of meats) Rare.
- The back or hindmost part; that which is behind, or last on order; - opposed to front.
- Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest.
- The buttocks, a creature's bottom
- To place in the rear; to secure the rear of.
- To sodomize (perform anal sex)
- Being behind, or in the hindmost part; hindmost
- Early; soon