The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word WREST
I've seen this crossword clue in The Guardian
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More clues leading to the result WREST
- Extract from a little white lie
- Pull away from wife and sleep
- Pull away with the others
- Direction to conceal the ending of Oliver Twist
- Forcibly remove speaker’s refreshment
- Grab support when told
- Extract with ease? Yes and no
- Distort main point about what’s central to differences
- Remove with force or with ease
- Force away with others
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The straight part
We know that "Extract/no" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case extract/no = wrest.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does WREST mean?
WREST noun- The act of wresting; a wrench or twist; distortion.
- A key to tune a stringed instrument.
- Active or motive power.
- Short for saw wrest; a saw set.
- To pull or twist violently.
- To obtain by pulling or violent force.
- To seize.
- To distort, to pervert, to twist.
- To tune with a wrest, or key.
- A partition in a water wheel by which the form of the buckets is determined.
- A metal (formerly wooden) piece of some ploughs attached under the mouldboard (the curved blade that turns over the furrow) for clearing out the furrow; the mouldboard itself.