The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word BODY
I've seen this crossword clue in The Times
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More clues leading to the result BODY
- Corpse is gory: look out
- Group of five hundred enthralled by young male
- Youth pocketing key for the trunk
- Lad’s carrying a key for trunk
- Son clothing daughter in female clothing
- /1 One into bondage, ugly sort, may show your words to be false
- Group in party back in past
- Stiff group
- Quality of wine society?
- Person‘s son protecting daughter
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The straight part
We know that "trunk" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case trunk = body.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 BODY mean?
BODY noun- Physical frame.
- Main section.
- Coherent group.
- Material entity.
- The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated).
- A three-dimensional object, such as a cube or cone.
- To give body or shape to something.
- To construct the bodywork of a car.
- To embody.
- To murder someone.
- (by extension) To utterly defeat someone.
- To hard counter a particular character build or play style. Frequently used in the passive voice form, get bodied by.