The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word DICE
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result DICE
- Cut a couple of diamonds
- Cubes of frozen stuff applied to wound ultimately
- Cut Peter out, bring Charlie in
- Police force heading west, and east, take great risks
- Game of chance could finally kill someone
- Cast objects to cut
- Cut diamonds upon diamonds
- Take a risk with girl before church
- Chop up diamonds and more diamonds
- Daughter skating apparently — one to fall by chance?
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The straight part
We know that "Cut" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case cut = dice.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 DICE mean?
DICE noun- Gaming with one or more dice.
- A die.
- That which has been diced.
- To play dice.
- To cut into small cubes.
- To ornament with squares, diamonds, or cubes.
- A regular polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and used in games of chance.
- That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance.
- (plural also dies) An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform as an independent device or integrated circuit.