The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word OARED
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More clues leading to the result OARED
- Regular characters in local, flushed, had a row
- Rowed and yelled, losing head
- Rowed with cabbie close to blocking Barking Road
- Descriptive of galley, a shade beneath surface of ocean
- Dead-headed rose, used bladed implement
- Losing rag in road rage, criminal bearing blades
- Had a row with a communist — nothing starting it
- . Took off, lost direction and had a row?
- Rose, shunning society, travelled by canoe
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The straight part
We know that "bearing blades" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case bearing blades = oared.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 OARED mean?
OARED adjective- Having oars.
- To row; to travel with, or as if with, oars.