The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word EVADE
I've seen this crossword clue in The Times
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More clues leading to the result EVADE
- Bill wearing woman's skirt
- Steer clear of woman screening commercial
- Ecstasy, see, when one’s out for a duck
- Girl upon wings of drake, duck
- Dodge publicity, going in the night before
- Steer clear of old nurse injecting drugs? Quite the opposite
- English man raised in Dodge
- Duck English fellow sent back
- Escape notice in after-work party for poets?
- Bypass English Channel on return trip
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The straight part
We know that "duck" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case duck = evade.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 EVADE mean?
EVADE verb- To get away from by cunning; to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to elude; to cleverly escape from
- To escape; to slip away; — sometimes with from.
- To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding.