The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word FREYA
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result FREYA
- Runs into whimsical American goddess
- French vote for returning divine female
- ‘With body to die for’, agreed about divine creature
- Waste year in pursuit of fellow goddess
- Goddess held upside down by bricklayer, frantic
- French vote for elevated, divine female
- Goddess in prayer, fed up
- Father always stands for this Scandinavian beauty
- Goddess of The Night — fine philosopher’s retrospective
- Goddess elevated in prayer festival
Buddy explains!
The straight part
We know that "Scandinavian beauty" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case scandinavian beauty = freya.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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