The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word GAROTTE
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More clues leading to the result GAROTTE
- Throttle component of carburettor again playing up
- Throttle balls in entrance
- Rubbish blocking entrance — nasty bit of wire?
- Deterioration in opening of throttle
- Rubbish in entrance, it’s enough to take one’s breath away
- Throttle needed when entrance is blocked by rubbish
- Georgia nearly went off the wire
- Choke from carburettor a garage put back
- Length of cord in rubbish blocking entrance
- Strangler’s target struggled to keep in centre of crowd
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The straight part
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What does GAROTTE mean?
GAROTTE noun- A cord, wire or similar used for strangulation.
- An iron collar formerly used in Spain to execute people by strangulation.
- To execute by strangulation.
- To suddenly render insensible by semi-strangulation, and then to rob.