The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word REACH
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More clues leading to the result REACH
- Arrive at stretch of river
- Contact a companion about being on top
- Get to do a sermon after priest does one
- Make contact with heads of royal estate about crown hire
- Come to hole in the wall where bricks at first have gone missing
- Get to adore a child? To some extent
- Arrive at range
- Spread the gospel but not quietly to gain influence
- Get to lecture? No parking
- . Accomplish rupture with British withdrawing
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The straight part
We know that "Get to" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case get to = reach.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does REACH mean?
REACH noun- The act of stretching or extending; extension.
- The ability to reach or touch with the person, a limb, or something held or thrown.
- The power of stretching out or extending action, influence, or the like; power of attainment or management; extent of force or capacity.
- Extent; stretch; expanse; hence, application; influence; result; scope.
- An exaggeration; an extension beyond evidence or normal; a stretch.
- The distance a boxer's arm can extend to land a blow.
- Any point of sail in which the wind comes from the side of a vessel, excluding close-hauled.
- The distance traversed between tacks.
- A stretch of a watercourse which can be sailed in one reach (in the previous sense). An extended portion of water; a stretch; a straightish portion of a stream, river, or arm of the sea extending up into the land, as from one turn to another. By extension, the adjacent land.
- A level stretch of a watercourse, as between rapids in a river or locks in a canal. (examples?)
- An extended portion or area of land or water.
- An article to obtain an advantage.
- The pole or rod connecting the rear axle with the forward bolster of a wagon.
- An effort to vomit; a retching.
- To extend, stretch, or thrust out (for example a limb or object held in the hand).
- To give to someone by stretching out a limb, especially the hand; to give with the hand; to pass to another person; to hand over.
- To stretch out the hand.
- To attain or obtain by stretching forth the hand; to extend some part of the body, or something held, so as to touch, strike, grasp, etc.
- To strike or touch with a missile.
- Hence, to extend an action, effort, or influence to; to penetrate to; to pierce, or cut.
- To extend to; to stretch out as far as; to touch by virtue of extent.
- To arrive at (a place) by effort of any kind.
- To make contact with.
- To connect with (someone) on an emotional level, making them receptive of (one); to get through to (someone).
- To arrive at a particular destination.
- To continue living until, or up to, a certain age.
- To understand; to comprehend.
- To overreach; to deceive.
- To strain after something; to make (sometimes futile or pretentious) efforts.
- To extend in dimension, time etc.; to stretch out continuously (past, beyond, above, from etc. something).
- To sail on the wind, as from one point of tacking to another, or with the wind nearly abeam.
- To experience a vomiting reflex; to gag; to retch.