Cryptic crossword clue
Crawlers eliciting blasphemous oath? 6

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word SNAILS

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The straight part
We know that "Crawlers/blasphemous oath" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case crawlers/blasphemous oath = snails.
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 SNAILS mean?

SNAILS noun
  1. Any of very many animals (either hermaphroditic or nonhermaphroditic), of the class Gastropoda, having a coiled shell.
  2. (by extension) A slow person; a sluggard.
  3. A spiral cam, or a flat piece of metal of spirally curved outline, used for giving motion to, or changing the position of, another part, as the hammer tail of a striking clock.
  4. A tortoise or testudo; a movable roof or shed to protect besiegers.
  5. The pod of the snail clover.
SNAILS verb
  1. To move or travel very slowly.

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