The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 letter word RED
I've seen this crossword clue in The Times
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More clues leading to the result RED
- Marxist maybe looking hot and bothered?
- In Berlin, the uprising seeking to destroy capital?
- Flushed wine and coffee in opposite directions
- Friend regularly embarrassed-looking?
- House ending in riot after radical likely to win
- Wine studied, we hear?
- Communist: the German revolutionary
- Visibly embarrassed as books are spoken of
- Embarrassed about daughter
- Friend regularly looking embarrassed
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The straight part
We know that "embarrassed-looking" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case embarrassed-looking = red.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does RED mean?
RED noun- Any of a range of colours having the longest wavelengths, 670 nm, of the visible spectrum; a primary additive colour for transmitted light: the colour obtained by subtracting green and blue from white light using magenta and yellow filters; the colour of blood, ripe strawberries, etc.
- A revolutionary socialist or (most commonly) a Communist; (usually capitalized) a Bolshevik, a supporter of the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War.
- One of the 15 red balls used in snooker, distinguished from the colours.
- Red wine.
- A redshank.
- An Amerind.
- The drug secobarbital; a capsule of this drug.
- A red light (a traffic signal)
- (beverages) red lemonade
- One of the three color charges for quarks.
- Chili con carne (usually in the phrase "bowl of red")
- The redfish or red drum, Sciaenops ocellatus, a fish with reddish fins and scales.
- Having red as its color.
- (of hair) Having an orange-brown or orange-blond colour; ginger.
- (of a card) Of the hearts or diamonds suits. Compare black
- (often capitalized) Supportive of, related to, or dominated by a political party or movement represented by the color red:
- Amerind; relating to Amerindians or First Nations
- Of the lower-frequency region of the (typically visible) part of the electromagnetic spectrum which is relevant in the specific observation.
- Having a color charge of red.
- To govern, protect.
- To discuss, deliberate.
- To advise.
- To interpret (a riddle or dream); explain.
- To free from entanglement.
- To free from embarrassment.
- To fix boundaries.
- To comb hair.
- To separate combatants.
- To settle, usually a quarrel.
- To clean, tidy up, to put in order.