The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 10 letter word ACCELERATE
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More clues leading to the result ACCELERATE
- Create lace pants — manipulate a foot pedal to do it
- Brewed treacle that goes into superb snowball
- Maybe create lace and go faster
- Speed after group mostly in top speed
- Put one’s foot down seeing expert cover Electra complex
- Get faster a cold vegetable, mostly devoured
- Get faster placing this article according to 18 in an old car
- Get faster account, and celebrate, having lost heart
- Open up a Conservative party – leadership of Boris is revoked
- Put one’s foot down
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The straight part
We know that "manipulate a foot pedal to do it" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case manipulate a foot pedal to do it = accelerate.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 ACCELERATE mean?
ACCELERATE verb- To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of.
- To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of.
- To cause a change of velocity.
- To hasten, as the occurrence of an event.
- To enable a student to finish a course of study in less than normal time.
- To become faster; to begin to move more quickly.
- Grow; increase.
- Accelerated; quickened; hastened; hurried.