The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word GAPE
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More clues leading to the result GAPE
- Space programme’s latest? Look amazed
- Good sport suppressing a yawn
- Good mimic makes you yawn
- One effect of gravity on a monkey is to yawn
- Stare and yawn at problem page
- Open wide space by end of lane
- Good mimic could make one stare open-mouthed
- Break free eventually and look amazed?
- Open Jeep gang’s taken over regularly
- Grow apart from grand primate
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The straight part
We know that "yawn" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case yawn = gape.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does GAPE mean?
GAPE noun- An act of gaping; a yawn.
- A large opening.
- A disease in poultry caused by gapeworm in the windpipe, a symptom of which is frequent gaping.
- The width of an opening.
- The maximum opening of the mouth (of a bird, fish, etc.) when it is open.
- To open the mouth wide, especially involuntarily, as in a yawn, anger, or surprise.
- To stare in wonder.
- To open wide; to display a gap.
- Of a cat: to open the passage to the vomeronasal organ, analogous to the flehming in other animals.