The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word STRETCHER
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More clues leading to the result STRETCHER
- What’s needed for one being sick on the way?
- Structure associated with sick people — the rack?
- One doing exercises, but no header
- Overextend Her Majesty? She might be carried off on this
- Wartime medical auxiliary sometimes transporting litter?
- One picking up litter from field
- . What may give Casualty a lift?
- Lie about returning after spell in prison
- Extremely stout person heaving a brick
- Ambulance staff use this elastic
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The straight part
We know that "One doing exercises" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case one doing exercises = stretcher.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does STRETCHER mean?
STRETCHER noun- One who, or that which, stretches.
- A simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person.
- A frame on which a canvas is stretched for painting.
- A device to stretch shoes or gloves.
- A brick laid with the longest side exposed (compare header).
- A piece of timber used in building.
- A lie; an overstretching of the truth.
- A board against which a rower places his feet.
- A crosspiece placed between the sides of a boat to keep them apart when hoisted up and gripped.
- One of the rods in an umbrella, attached at one end to one of the ribs, and at the other to the tube sliding upon the handle.
- An instrument for stretching boots or gloves.
- A penis, especially a long penis.
- To carry (an injured person) on a stretcher.