The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word DRAW
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More clues leading to the result DRAW
- Pull one in custody back
- Raffle is big attraction
- Raffle that has no winner?
- Backed local voting area appeal
- Daughters without refinement are attractive?
- Pull out your gun and charge in the wrong direction
- Guard spins around to pull out weapon
- Conflict with Germany sent up in sketch
- Tight result constituency returned
- Get weapon out but don’t win
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The straight part
We know that "sketch" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case sketch = draw.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does DRAW mean?
DRAW noun- The result of a contest that neither side has won; a tie.
- The procedure by which the result of a lottery is determined.
- Something that attracts e.g. a crowd.
- The result of a two-innings match in which at least one side did not complete all their innings before time ran out (as distinguished from a tie).
- A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the left. See hook, slice, fade.
- A shot that is intended to land gently in the house (the circular target) without knocking out other stones; cf. takeout.
- A dry stream bed that drains surface water only during periods of heavy rain or flooding.
- A bag of cannabis.
- Cannabis.
- In a commission-based job, an advance on future (potential) commissions given to an employee by the employer.
- A situation in which one or more players has four cards of the same suit or four out of five necessary cards for a straight and requires a further card to make their flush or straight.
- The act of pulling back the strings in preparation of firing.
- The spin or twist imparted to a ball etc. by a drawing stroke.
- To move or develop something.
- To exert or experience force.
- (fluidic) To remove or separate or displace.
- To change in size or shape.
- To attract or be attracted.
- (usually as draw on or draw upon) To rely on; utilize as a source.
- To disembowel.
- To end a game in a draw (with neither side winning).
- To choose by means of a random selection process.
- To make a shot that lands gently in the house (the circular target) without knocking out other stones.
- To play (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect the ball between the legs and the wicket.
- To hit (the ball) with the toe of the club so that it is deflected toward the left.
- To strike (the cue ball) below the center so as to give it a backward rotation which causes it to take a backward direction on striking another ball.