The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word CRIMP
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More clues leading to the result CRIMP
- Treatment from stylist, extremely clever devil
- Wave from urchin holding up crown
- Curl copper up round edge
- Perhaps lag behind on jeep, arriving at bend
- Tuck member under bed with no base
- Wave caught highest point of promenade, swamping verge
- Join old Party, to protect Border
- Crown emperor — and wave
- Wave or fringe in Communist Party
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The straight part
We know that "Curl" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case curl = crimp.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does CRIMP mean?
CRIMP noun- A fastener or a fastening method that secures parts by bending metal around a joint and squeezing it together, often with a tool that adds indentations to capture the parts.
- The natural curliness of wool fibres.
- (usually in the plural) Hair that is shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks.
- A card game.
- To press into small ridges or folds, to pleat, to corrugate.
- To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened.
- To pinch and hold; to seize.
- To style hair into a crimp, to form hair into tight curls, to make it kinky.
- To bend or mold leather into shape.
- To gash the flesh, e.g. of a raw fish, to make it crisper when cooked.
- Easily crumbled; friable; brittle.
- Weak; inconsistent; contradictory.
- An agent who procures seamen, soldier, etc., especially by decoying, entrapping, impressing, or seducing them.
- (specifically) One who infringes sub-section 1 of the Merchant Shipping Act of 1854, applied to a person other than the owner, master, etc., who engages seamen without a license from the Board of Trade.
- A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.
- To impress (seamen or soldiers); to entrap, to decoy.