The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word THROAT
I've seen this crossword clue in The Guardian
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More clues leading to the result THROAT
- Passage which crosses river, ending in Idaho
- Passage which includes short argument
- A spot of laryngitis which holds tenor up, number abandoned
- Every other itchy European scratches head and neck
- Endless rubbish stuck in which craw?
- Passage that is lined with rolled gold
- Hunger ends accessing perfectly narrow passage
- Passage that accommodates retreating soldiers
- Avoiding expression of disgust, finished a tense passage
- Way to stomach extremes of tough radio assignment
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The straight part
We know that "narrow passage" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case narrow passage = throat.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does THROAT mean?
THROAT noun- The front part of the neck.
- The gullet or windpipe.
- A narrow opening in a vessel.
- Station throat.
- The part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue.
- The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail.
- That end of a gaff which is next to the mast.
- The angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank.
- The inside of a timber knee.
- The orifice of a tubular organ; the outer end of the tube of a monopetalous corolla; the faux, or fauces.
- To utter in or with the throat.
- To take into the throat. (Compare deepthroat.)
- To mow (beans, etc.) in a direction against their bending.