The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word TWIN
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More clues leading to the result TWIN
- Time to secure such a hotel room?
- Match ending in magnificent victory
- Double whiskey — canned?
- Success splitting rotating barrel to make a washing machine
- Weight-bearing metal ringer
- Ending in government, earn double
- Counterpart in part of old Scotland
- Relative with endless string …
- Writer doesn’t have a double
- Double 2 minus 0 plus 1 number
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The straight part
We know that "Match" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case match = twin.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does TWIN mean?
TWIN noun- Either of two people (or, less commonly, animals) who shared the same uterus at the same time; one who was born at the same birth as a sibling.
- Either of two similar or closely related objects, entities etc.
- A room in a hotel, guesthouse, etc. with two beds; a twin room.
- A twin size mattress or a bed designed for such a mattress.
- A twin crystal.
- (obsolete outside Scotland) To separate, divide.
- (obsolete outside Scotland) To split, part; to go away, depart.
- (usually in the passive) To join, unite; to form links between (now especially of two places in different countries).
- To be paired or suited.
- To give birth to twins.
- To be born at the same birth.
- Double; dual; occurring as a matching pair
- Forming a pair of twins.