The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word SPRAY
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More clues leading to the result SPRAY
- Bouquet for one impresses pair
- How to water a bunch of flowers?
- Eg, aerosol chap from Bristol and smart with it
- Jet, for example, crossing Peru regularly
- Water cut flowers
- Apply water to cut flowers
- Agile one enters fine mist
- Aerosol, eg with extremely poor contents
- Drench a posy of flowers
- Religious figure about to address God with quiet work on graffiti?
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The straight part
We know that "Drench/a posy of flowers" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case drench/a posy of flowers = spray.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does SPRAY mean?
SPRAY noun- A fine, gentle, dispersed mist of liquid.
- A pressurized container; an atomizer.
- Any of numerous commercial products, including paints, cosmetics, and insecticides, that are dispensed from containers in this manner.
- A jet of fine medicated vapour, used either as an application to a diseased part or to charge the air of a room with a disinfectant or a deodorizer.
- A side channel or branch of the runner of a flask, made to distribute the metal to all parts of the mold.
- A group of castings made in the same mold and connected by sprues formed in the runner and its branches.
- The allocation and filling of blocks of memory with the same byte sequence, hoping to establish that sequence in a certain predetermined location as part of an exploit.
- To project a liquid in a dispersive manner toward something.
- To project in a dispersive manner.
- To project many small items dispersively.
- To urinate in order to mark territory.
- To allocate blocks of memory from (a heap, etc.), and fill them with the same byte sequence, hoping to establish that sequence in a certain predetermined location as part of an exploit.
- A small branch of flowers or berries.
- A collective body of small branches.
- Branches and twigs collectively; foliage.
- An orchard.
- An ornament or design that resembles a branch.