The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word CLIMB
I've seen this crossword clue in The Times
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More clues leading to the result CLIMB
- Caught by tree branch, making this?
- Cold, member making ascent
- Scale from cayman’s front leg?
- Apology as starter of chicken leg having feathers on
- Get cold arm or leg in mountain activity
- Conservative branch to rise
- Conservative member to seek higher position
- Conservative member’s rise
- Caught arm, perhaps, in mountaineering activity
- Be upwardly mobile Conservative member
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The straight part
We know that "seek higher position" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case seek higher position = climb.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 CLIMB mean?
CLIMB noun- An act of climbing.
- The act of getting to somewhere more elevated.
- An upwards struggle
- To ascend; rise; to go up.
- To mount; to move upwards on.
- To scale; to get to the top of something.
- To move (especially up and down something) by gripping with the hands and using the feet.
- To practise the sport of climbing
- To jump high
- To move to a higher position on the social ladder.
- Of plants, to grow upwards by clinging to something.