The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word BROOM
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More clues leading to the result BROOM
- It sweeps up? Right, in successful period
- Brush sleeping area when Ed leaves
- Sweeper with ball's opening space
- Sweeper’s way of working: circle round
- . Pole saves header from Romanian sweeper
- Brush could alternatively be shrub
- Opportunity follows the debut of Basil Brush
- Bishop fell over brush
- Flowering shrub shown in British volume
- Black range is essential for a witch
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The straight part
We know that "Brush" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case brush = broom.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does BROOM mean?
BROOM noun- A domestic utensil with fibers bound together at the end of a long handle, used for sweeping.
- An implement with which players sweep the ice to make a stone travel further and curl less; a sweeper.
- Any of several yellow-flowered shrubs of the family Fabaceae, in the tribe Genisteae, including genera Cytisus, Genista, and Spartium, with long, thin branches and small or few leaves.
- A gun, because it is more or less long, held similarly to a besom and “cleans” what is in front.
- To sweep with a broom.
- (roofing) To improve the embedding of a membrane by using a broom or squeegee to smooth it out and ensure contact with the adhesive under the membrane.
- To clean (e.g. a ship's bottom of clinging shells, seaweed, etc.) by the application of fire and scraping.