The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word TOXIC
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More clues leading to the result TOXIC
- Concise Oxford coming in to name mainly retro word describing bad things
- Poisonous beef consumed in short moment
- Including poison side effects entry into short table of contents
- Reverse bed and put eleven in it – could be dangerous
- Mounting 9 in bed could be fatal
- Deadly beast trapped by nervous movement
- Team in bed laid up with what’s poisonous
- Almost mention about eating beef! That’s dangerous
- Poison-related spasm consumes beast of burden
- Poisonous beast consumed by jerk
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The straight part
We know that "word describing bad things" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case word describing bad things = toxic.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 TOXIC mean?
TOXIC adjective- Having a chemical nature that is harmful to health or lethal if consumed or otherwise entering into the body in sufficient quantities.
- Appearing grossly unwell; characterised by serious, potentially life-threatening compromise in the respiratory, circulatory or other body systems.
- Severely negative or harmful.
- (of a person) Hateful or strongly antipathetic.