The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word FLAKE
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More clues leading to the result FLAKE
- Perhaps a bit of snow following a large amount of water
- Peel having something false about Liberal
- Large quantity of water taken by female shaving
- A little snow beginning to freeze body of water
- Start to exfoliate after hassle shaving
- Perhaps Trump and his kind of news baffles Liberal
- Scrap metal’s ending in forge
- Drily crack joke, ultimately prolonging criticism
- Criticism approaching the end of the 22
- L-loud exchange for 13
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What does FLAKE mean?
FLAKE noun- A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything
- A scale of a fish or similar animal
- A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone.
- A person who is impractical, flighty, unreliable, or inconsistent; especially with maintaining a living.
- A carnation with only two colours in the flower, the petals having large stripes.
- A flat turn or tier of rope.
- To break or chip off in a flake.
- To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through.
- To store an item such as rope or sail in layers
- To hit (another person).
- Dogfish.
- The meat of the gummy shark.
- Something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently.
- A trick; a swindle.
- A move meant to deceive an opposing player, used for gaining advantage for example when dribbling an opponent.
- One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.
- A paling; a hurdle.
- A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things.
- A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on while calking, etc.