Cryptic crossword clue
Large insertion in tool shaft 4

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word HOLE

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The straight part

We know that "haft" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case haft = hole.

The cryptic/wordplay part

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This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does HOLE mean?

1. A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; an opening in or through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent; a fissure.
2. (heading) In games.
3. An excavation pit or trench.
4. A weakness; a flaw or ambiguity.
5. A container or receptacle.
6. In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.
7. A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.
8. An orifice, in particular the anus. When used with shut it always refers to the mouth.
9. (particularly in the phrase "get one's hole") Sex, or a sex partner.
10. (with "the") Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.
11. An undesirable place to live or visit; a hovel.
12. Difficulty, in particular, debt.
13. A chordless cycle in a graph.

1. To make holes in (an object or surface).
2. (by extension) To destroy.
3. To go into a hole.
4. To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball.
5. To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in.

1. Entire, undivided.
2. Sound, uninjured, healthy.
3. (of food) From which none of its constituents has been removed.
4. As yet unworked.

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