The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word IMBED
I've seen this crossword clue in The Guardian
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More clues leading to the result IMBED
- Plant grew tall, avoiding cold lake
- This writer’s teaching qualification is seen as fix
- I have sex with male inside lodge
- Put in position, I have a qualification to work in 9
- I hold teaching qualification — fix?
- This person’s qualification to teach is put down
- Put down as having arms and legs but no head
- Place where charged up union is dispersed
- Fix papers to procure decoration
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The straight part
We know that "lodge" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case lodge = imbed.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.
Sadly, We don't have an explanation for this specific crossword clue yet.
What does IMBED mean?
IMBED verb- To lay as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed.
- (by extension) To include in surrounding matter.
- To encapsulate within another document or data file.
- To define a one-to-one function from (one set) to another so that certain properties of the domain are preserved when considering the image as a subset of the codomain.