The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word HEAD
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More clues leading to the result HEAD
- Nut was obliged to protect kernel in general
- Top place to go on a ship
- Nut collector close to birch unearthed supply
- School principal wants to expel German music fan
- Was told to ignore Resistance leader
- Important teacher picked up dismissing component of education
- Critical moment on coming to thisĀ floating toilet
- Face/ principal/ pressure front
- Summit leader in crisis
- Female full of trouble as one in direct confrontation
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What does HEAD mean?
HEAD noun- The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth and main sense organs.
- The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
- (social, metonymy) A leader or expert.
- A significant or important part.
- Headway; progress.
- Topic; subject.
- Denouement; crisis.
- (fluid dynamics) Pressure and energy.
- Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.
- The glans penis.
- A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.
- Power; armed force.
- To be in command of. (See also head up.)
- To come at the beginning of; to commence.
- To strike with the head; as in soccer, to head the ball
- To move in a specified direction.
- To remove the head from a fish.
- To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river.
- To form a head.
- To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head.
- To cut off the top of; to lop off.
- To behead; to decapitate.
- To go in front of.
- To get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose.
- (by extension) To check or restrain.
- To set on the head.
- Of, relating to, or intended for the head.
- Foremost in rank or importance.
- Placed at the top or the front.
- Coming from in front.