The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word URGES
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More clues leading to the result URGES
- Motivates writer to dispense with peripheral characters
- Clockwork Orange author’s innermost desires
- Recommends rendering laxatives powerless
- Advocates toying with Bruges after leaving the capital
- Encourages swells to go topless
- Desires to move briskly ahead, first to last
- Gets rid of priest missing eggs
- Spurs regularly run ragged by Gunners’ right winger
- Advises wash, head to toe
- Lobbies for political ousters as leader is banished
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The straight part
We know that "desires" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case desires = urges.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does URGES mean?
URGES noun- A strong desire; an itch to do something.
- To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward.
- To press the mind or will of; to ply with motives, arguments, persuasion, or importunity.
- To provoke; to exasperate.
- To press hard upon; to follow closely.
- To present in an urgent manner; to insist upon.
- To treat with forcible means; to take severe or violent measures with.
- To press onward or forward.
- To be pressing in argument; to insist; to persist.