The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word ANIMAL
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More clues leading to the result ANIMAL
- Creature portrayed in plate that’s mounted?
- Brutish sort, throwing back thin plate
- Hides out of panic, small creature
- Creature I am slipping into waterway — not the first
- Source of meat in plate turning up
- Creature's coat turned upside down
- A little man, I'm a lowly beast
- Thin plate served up for lamb, perhaps
- Being eaten by human, I’m alarmed
- Number one is obsessive about, say …
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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 = animal.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does ANIMAL mean?
ANIMAL noun- In scientific usage, a multicellular organism that is usually mobile, whose cells are not encased in a rigid cell wall (distinguishing it from plants and fungi) and which derives energy solely from the consumption of other organisms (distinguishing it from plants).
- In non-scientific usage, any member of the kingdom Animalia other than a human.
- In non-scientific usage, any land-living vertebrate (i.e. not fishes, insects, etc.).
- A person who behaves wildly; a bestial, brutal, brutish, cruel, or inhuman person.
- A person of a particular type.
- Matter, thing.
- Of or relating to animals.
- Raw, base, unhindered by social codes.
- Pertaining to the spirit or soul; relating to sensation or innervation.
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