The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word SQUAT
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More clues leading to the result SQUAT
- Crouch down in illegally-occupied building
- Short exercise to occupy room?
- Dumpy crew eliminating last outsider in tournament
- Most of the players – and the essential ingredient of Peter Crouch
- Exercise illegal occupation
- Occupy building as seen in street
- Sport reduced by a third with introduction of this gym exercise
- Refuse to move on, having occupied throne with Queen coming in
- Crouch may be short and stocky
- Short team? In the middle, Peter Crouch!
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The straight part
We know that "Exercise/illegal occupation" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case exercise/illegal occupation = squat.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does SQUAT mean?
SQUAT noun- Nothing; nothing whatsoever.
- A position assumed by bending deeply at the knees while resting on one's feet.
- (exercise) Any of various modes of callisthenic exercises performed by moving the body and bending at least one knee.
- A building occupied without permission, as practiced by a squatter.
- A place of concealment in which a hare spends time when inactive, especially during the day; a form.
- A toilet used by squatting as opposed to sitting; a squat toilet.
- A sudden or crushing fall.
- A small vein of ore.
- A mineral consisting of tin ore and spar.
- To bend deeply at the knees while resting on one's feet.
- (exercise) To perform one or more callisthenic exercises by moving the body and bending at least one knee.
- To occupy or reside in a place without the permission of the owner.
- To sit close to the ground; to cower; to stoop, or lie close, to escape observation, as a partridge or rabbit.
- To bruise or flatten by a fall; to squash.
- Relatively short or low, and thick or broad.
- Sitting on the hams or heels; sitting close to the ground; cowering; crouching.
- The angel shark (genus Squatina).