The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word ROPE
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More clues leading to the result ROPE
- Climbers linked together move with uncertainty — not good
- Hitch, or something he directed?
- Reportedly keeps back vital equipment for tower
- About to grab work to become secure
- Cable starts to read old political epistles
- In seminar, open binder
- Guy maybe – atop fire’s a fit one lit
- Cord somewhat retro perhaps
- Linked climbing party, thorough, outer pair removed
- Men’s back exercise — skipping, say?
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The straight part
We know that "Climbers linked together" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case climbers linked together = rope.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does ROPE mean?
ROPE noun- Thick strings, yarn, monofilaments, metal wires, or strands of other cordage that are twisted together to form a stronger line.
- An individual length of such material.
- A cohesive strand of something.
- A continuous stream.
- A hard line drive.
- A long thin segment of soft clay, either extruded or formed by hand.
- A data structure resembling a string, using a concatenation tree in which each leaf represents a character.
- A unit of distance equivalent to the distance covered in six months by a god flying at ten million miles per second.
- (jewelry) A necklace of at least 1 meter in length.
- Cordage of at least 1 inch in diameter, or a length of such cordage.
- A unit of length equal to 20 feet.
- Flunitrazepam, also known as Rohypnol.
- A shot of semen that a man releases during ejaculation.
- (in the plural) The small intestines.
- To tie (something) with rope.
- To throw a rope (or something similar, e.g. a lasso, cable, wire, etc.) around (something).
- To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread.
- To commit suicide.