Cryptic crossword clue
Facial preparations designed to get forty winks back 5

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word PEELS

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The straight part

We know that "Facial preparations" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case facial preparations = peels.

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What does PEELS mean?

1. A small salmon; a grilse; a sewin.

1. (usually uncountable) The skin or outer layer of a fruit, vegetable, etc.
2. The action of peeling away from a formation.
3. A cosmetic preparation designed to remove dead skin or to exfoliate.

1. To remove the skin or outer covering of.
2. To remove something from the outer or top layer of.
3. To become detached, come away, especially in flakes or strips; to shed skin in such a way.
4. To remove one's clothing.
5. To move, separate (off or away).

1. A stake.
2. A fence made of stakes; a stockade.
3. A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep.

1. A shovel or similar instrument, now especially a pole with a flat disc at the end used for removing pizza or loaves of bread from a baker's oven.
2. A T-shaped implement used by printers and bookbinders for hanging wet sheets of paper on lines or poles to dry.
3. The blade of an oar.

1. An equal or match; a draw.
2. A takeout which removes a stone from play as well as the delivered stone.

1. To play a peel shot.

1. To send through a hoop (of a ball other than one's own).

1. To plunder; to pillage, rob.

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