The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word TIBIA
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More clues leading to the result TIBIA
- Bone’s top section facing the wrong way
- Bone slightly raised, covering one
- Bone idle at first during a little uprising
- Part of skeleton from sloth, part upside down
- Part of support that Iran bought in America originally
- Shin up, Everyman? In a bit
- . When climbing cracking section in a bone
- Iodine injected in rather twisted part of leg
- Part of leg the person speaking in a part raised
- Bone fragment turned up on northbound A1
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The straight part
We know that "Bone" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case bone = tibia.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does TIBIA mean?
TIBIA noun- The inner and usually the larger of the two bones of the leg or hind limb below the knee, the shinbone
- The second segment from the end of an insect's leg, between the femur and tarsus.
- The third segment from the end of an arachnid's leg, between the patella and metatarsus.
- A musical instrument of the flute kind, originally made of the leg bone of an animal.