The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word FLOOR
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More clues leading to the result FLOOR
- Sounds like a mistake on which to stand?
- Father's outside toilet, a levelled area
- John’s crushed by French defeat
- Defeat, as weakness picked up?
- John conceals one in tree stump
- Look into supporting platform on which Foot stood?
- Reported error in puzzle
- Part of building left to enter flipping opposite part of building!
- Level 4’s trim bathroom parts …
- Level of defeat
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The straight part
We know that "Level/defeat" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case level/defeat = floor.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does FLOOR mean?
FLOOR noun- The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room.
- Ground (surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground).
- The lower inside surface of a hollow space.
- A structure formed of beams, girders, etc, with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into storeys/stories.
- The supporting surface or platform of a structure such as a bridge.
- A storey/story of a building.
- In a parliament, the part of the house assigned to the members, as opposed to the viewing gallery.
- Hence, the right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event.
- That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.
- The rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.
- A horizontal, flat ore body.
- The largest integer less than or equal to a given number.
- An event performed on a floor-like carpeted surface.
- A floor-like carpeted surface for performing gymnastic movements.
- A lower limit on the interest rate payable on an otherwise variable-rate loan, used by lenders to defend against falls in interest rates. Opposite of a cap.
- A dance floor.
- The area in which business is conducted at a convention or exhibition
- To cover or furnish with a floor.
- To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down.
- (driving) To accelerate rapidly.
- To silence by a conclusive answer or retort.
- To amaze or greatly surprise.
- To finish or make an end of.
- To set a lower bound.