Cryptic crossword clue
Broken piece the girl maybe found on road 5

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word SHERD

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The straight part
We know that "Broken piece" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case broken piece = sherd.
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 SHERD mean?

SHERD noun
  1. A piece of broken glass or pottery, especially one found in an archaeological dig.
  2. (by extension) A piece of material, especially rock and similar materials, reminding of a broken piece of glass or pottery.
  3. A tough scale, sheath, or shell; especially an elytron of a beetle.
  4. An instance of an MMORPG that is one of several independent and structurally identical virtual worlds, none of which has so many players as to exhaust a system's resources.
  5. A component of a sharded distributed database.
  6. (singular or plural) A piece of crystal methamphetamine.

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