The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word RIDGE
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More clues leading to the result RIDGE
- Band cross when missing out on Number One
- Travel on horseback across grand elevation
- Such mountains are cooler with summit obscured
- Canter around top of Grampian range
- Slope that's good for breaking in horse
- High spot when Miss Jones stripped off
- Removing half of moat crossing: that’s elevation!
- Upland area, good to cycle round
- Top, top game
- Trip over Grampian’s premier hill-range
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The straight part
We know that "range" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case range = ridge.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does RIDGE mean?
RIDGE noun- The back of any animal; especially the upper or projecting part of the back of a quadruped.
- Any extended protuberance; a projecting line or strip.
- The line along which two sloping surfaces meet which diverge towards the ground.
- The highest point on a roof, represented by a horizontal line where two roof areas intersect, running the length of the area.
- (fortifications) The highest portion of the glacis proceeding from the salient angle of the covered way.
- A chain of mountains.
- A chain of hills.
- A long narrow elevation on an ocean bottom.
- An elongated region of high atmospheric pressure.
- To form into a ridge
- To extend in ridges