The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word NEST
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More clues leading to the result NEST
- Tyneside road - cosy place
- Cosy place, extremely nice, on street
- Lodge’s name is in French
- Inside a larger one, fit snug retreat
- Not entirely honest, eg grabbing savings
- Something seen in crane’s tree?
- Comfy home in one's town
- Where machine-gun might be placed in safe retreat
- Machine-gun placed here in comfortable retreat
- Gang of spies in The Thirty Nine Steps
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The straight part
We know that "snug retreat" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case snug retreat = nest.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does NEST mean?
NEST noun- A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young.
- A place used by another mammal, fish, amphibian or insect, for depositing eggs and hatching young.
- A snug, comfortable, or cosy residence or job situation.
- A retreat, or place of habitual resort.
- A hideout for bad people to frequent or haunt; a den.
- A home that a child or young adult shares with a parent or guardian.
- A fixed number of cards in some bidding games awarded to the highest bidder allowing him to exchange any or all with cards in his hand.
- A fortified position for a weapon.
- A structure consisting of nested structures, such as nested loops or nested subroutine calls.
- A circular bed of pasta, rice, etc. to be topped or filled with other foods.
- An aggregated mass of any ore or mineral, in an isolated state, within a rock.
- A collection of boxes, cases, or the like, of graduated size, each put within the one next larger.
- A compact group of pulleys, gears, springs, etc., working together or collectively.
- (of animals) To build or settle into a nest.
- To settle into a home.
- To successively neatly fit inside another.
- To place in, or as if in, a nest.
- To place one thing neatly inside another, and both inside yet another (and so on).
- To hunt for birds' nests or their contents (usually "go nesting").