The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word CROSS
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More clues leading to the result CROSS
- Like relaxed Buddhist, thwarted touring large cell
- Mongrel likely to snap?
- Albatross spitting feathers
- Angry Birds will entertain son when wife’s out
- Hybrid canine found by explorer
- Angry mule, perhaps
- Come over and put out a sign
- Two votes by one country? It may lead to bloomers
- Bridge put out
- Affliction that makes us angry
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The straight part
We know that "Mongrel/likely to snap?" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case mongrel/likely to snap? = cross.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does CROSS mean?
CROSS noun- A geometrical figure consisting of two straight lines or bars intersecting each other such that at least one of them is bisected by the other.
- Any geometric figure having this or a similar shape, such as a cross of Lorraine or a Maltese cross.
- A wooden post with a perpendicular beam attached and used (especially in the Roman Empire) to execute criminals (by crucifixion).
- (usually with the) The cross on which Christ was crucified.
- A hand gesture made in imitation of the shape of the Cross.
- A modified representation of the crucifixion stake, worn as jewellery or displayed as a symbol of religious devotion.
- (figurative, from Christ's bearing of the cross) A difficult situation that must be endured.
- The act of going across; the act of passing from one side to the other
- An animal or plant produced by crossbreeding or cross-fertilization.
- (by extension) A hybrid of any kind.
- A hook thrown over the opponent's punch.
- A pass in which the ball travels from by one touchline across the pitch.
- A place where roads intersect and lead off in four directions; a crossroad (common in UK and Irish place names such as Gerrards Cross).
- A monument that marks such a place. (Also common in UK or Irish place names such as Charing Cross)
- A coin stamped with the figure of a cross, or that side of such a piece on which the cross is stamped; hence, money in general.
- Church lands.
- A line drawn across or through another line.
- An instrument for laying of offsets perpendicular to the main course.
- A pipe-fitting with four branches whose axes usually form a right angle.
- (Rubik's Cube) Four edge cubies of one side that are in their right places, forming the shape of a cross.
- The thirty-sixth Lenormand card.
- Crossfire.
- To make or form a cross.
- To move relatively.
- (social) To oppose.
- To cross-fertilize or crossbreed.
- To stamp or mark (a cheque) in such a way as to prevent it being cashed, thus requiring it to be deposited into a bank account.
- Transverse; lying across the main direction.
- Opposite, opposed to.
- Opposing, adverse; being contrary to what one would hope or wish for.
- Bad-tempered, angry, annoyed.
- Made in an opposite direction, or an inverse relation; mutually inverse; interchanged.
- Across
- Cross product of the previous vector and the following vector.