The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word BOWER
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More clues leading to the result BOWER
- Hat that's not got left in country cottage
- Violinist, say, during and at the end of recital?
- Someone bending over in part of garden?
- Something shady, one concedes?
- Country cottage: one having to stoop?
- Being on the fiddle, maybe, one’s shady
- Hat left out in arbour
- How to greet the Queen in shady part of garden?
- Cricketer missing line in greenery?
- One on the fiddle — that’s shady
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The straight part
We know that "Being on the fiddle, maybe/one’s shady" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case being on the fiddle, maybe/one’s shady = bower.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does BOWER mean?
BOWER noun- A bedroom or private apartments, especially for a woman in a medieval castle.
- A dwelling; a picturesque country cottage, especially one that is used as a retreat.
- A shady, leafy shelter or recess in a garden or woods.
- A large structure made of grass and bright objects, used by the bower bird during courtship displays.
- To embower; to enclose.
- To lodge.
- A peasant; a farmer.
- Either of the two highest trumps in euchre.
- A type of ship's anchor, carried at the bow.
- One who bows or bends.
- A muscle that bends a limb, especially the arm.
- One who plays any of several bow instruments, such as the musical bow or diddley bow.
- A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest.