The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word ONAGER
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More clues leading to the result ONAGER
- Wild animal that could be orange
- Old queen keeping horse and wild ass
- Men fed horse first to enrage another equid
- Orange mashed up for a wild animal
- Ridiculous orange beast
- Riding maturer wild ass?
- Persian ass runs on time to come first
- Top lady on old horse or ass
- Being an ass for one brief time, right?
- The beast over time, runs
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The straight part
We know that "Being an ass" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case being an ass = onager.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does ONAGER mean?
ONAGER noun- The Asiatic wild ass or hemione (Equus hemionus), an animal of the horse family native to Asia; specifically, the Persian onager, Persian wild ass, or Persian zebra (Equus hemionus onager).
- A military engine acting like a sling which threw stones from a bag or wooden bucket powered by the torsion from a bundle of ropes or sinews operated by machinery; a torsion catapult.