The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word SPIDER
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More clues leading to the result SPIDER
- Military group swims, coming up for a rest
- Creature goes down again, maybe, having gone up
- When speaking, caught sight of a predator
- Creepy-crawly, coloured one, pet shop initially raised
- Character whose skin breaks to make silk
- Web-user starts to see problem, idea not quite right
- On the radio, noticed a creepy-crawly
- Ducks again turning to invertebrate?
- Web designer’s rest
- Table support for web engineer
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The straight part
We know that "Creature" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case creature = spider.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 SPIDER mean?
SPIDER noun- Any of various eight-legged, predatory arthropods, of the order Araneae, most of which spin webs to catch prey.
- A program which follows links on the World Wide Web in order to gather information.
- A float (drink) made by mixing ice-cream and a soda or fizzy drink (such as lemonade).
- An alcoholic drink made with brandy and lemonade or ginger beer.
- A spindly person.
- A man who persistently approaches or accosts a woman in a public social setting, particularly in a bar.
- A stick with a convex arch-shaped notched head used to support the cue when the cue ball is out of reach at normal extension; a bridge.
- A cast-iron frying pan with three legs, once common in open-hearth cookery.
- Implement for moving food in and out of hot oil for deep frying, with a circular metal mesh attached to a long handle; a spider skimmer
- A part of a crank, to which the chainrings are attached.
- Heroin (street drug).
- Part of a resonator instrument that transmits string vibrations from the bridge to a resonator cone at multiple points.
- A skeleton or frame with radiating arms or members, often connected by crosspieces, such as a casting forming the hub and spokes to which the rim of a fly wheel or large gear is bolted; the body of a piston head; or a frame for strengthening a core or mould for a casting.
- (fly fishing) a soft-hackle fly
- The network of wires separating the areas of a dartboard
- A spider graph or spider tree
- A type of light phaeton.
- To move like a spider.
- To cover a surface like a cobweb.
- (of a computer program) To follow links on the World Wide Web in order to gather information.