The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word LOOPS
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result LOOPS
- Winds reel back
- Circles yacht, front to back
- Aircraft manoeuvres in wind, climbing …
- Reel around in circles
- Rings to see what the film’s about in write-up
- Ladies perhaps note curls
- Sloop goes around – goes around in circles
- Repetitive segments to wind on reel from the bottom
- Backed up part of a cassette, repeating tracks
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The straight part
We know that "curls" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case curls = loops.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.
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What does LOOPS mean?
LOOPS noun- A length of thread, line or rope that is doubled over to make an opening.
- The opening so formed.
- A shape produced by a curve that bends around and crosses itself.
- A ring road or beltway.
- An endless strip of tape or film allowing continuous repetition.
- A complete circuit for an electric current.
- A programmed sequence of instructions that is repeated until or while a particular condition is satisfied.
- An edge that begins and ends on the same vertex.
- A path that starts and ends at the same point.
- A bus or rail route, walking route, etc. that starts and ends at the same point.
- A place at a terminus where trains or trams can turn round and go back the other way without having to reverse; a balloon loop, turning loop, or reversing loop.
- A quasigroup with an identity element.
- A loop-shaped intrauterine device.
- An aerobatic maneuver in which an aircraft flies a circular path in a vertical plane.
- A small, narrow opening; a loophole.
- A flexible region in a protein's secondary structure.
- To form something into a loop.
- To fasten or encircle something with a loop.
- To fly an aircraft in a loop.
- To move something in a loop.
- To join electrical components to complete a circuit.
- To duplicate the route of a pipeline.
- To create an error in a computer program so that it runs in an endless loop and the computer freezes up.
- To form a loop.
- To move in a loop.
- A mass of iron in a pasty condition gathered into a ball for the tilt hammer or rolls.