The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word SIEVE
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More clues leading to the result SIEVE
- Female is capsizing in something riddled with holes
- Riddle is about the first lady
- Second original tempting woman, one held to be a riddle
- Riddle perhaps is recalled by woman
- First lady is in retreat for strain
- Screen is put back with temptress behind it
- Kitchen utensil is returned by woman finally leaving flat
- Separate society that is very English
- Riddle one’s spun the previous day
- Riddle is, conversely, always unfinished
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The straight part
We know that "Kitchen utensil" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case kitchen utensil = sieve.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does SIEVE mean?
SIEVE noun- A device with a mesh bottom to separate, in a granular material, larger particles from smaller ones, or to separate solid objects from a liquid.
- A process, physical or abstract, that arrives at a final result by filtering out unwanted pieces of input from a larger starting set of input.
- A kind of coarse basket.
- A person, or their mind, that cannot remember things or is unable to keep secrets.
- A collection of morphisms in a category whose codomain is a certain fixed object of that category, which collection is closed under pre-composition by any morphism in the category.
- To strain, sift or sort using a sieve.
- To concede; let in