The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word FLATS
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More clues leading to the result FLATS
- Notes accommodation units — area likely to be flooded?
- Pads for comfortable shoes?
- Accommodation units, dull, small
- Pads from tyres that can’t be used
- Apartments full? It’s empty, so take time
- The grids in the puzzle are symmetric word squares
- Losing oxygen, glides to level ground
- Apartments of Abdul & Azeefa kept dogs at the rear end
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The straight part
We know that "Pads/comfortable shoes" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case pads/comfortable shoes = flats.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does FLATS mean?
FLATS noun- An area of level ground.
- A note played a semitone lower than a natural, denoted by the symbol ♭ placed after the letter representing the note (e.g., B♭) or in front of the note symbol (e.g. ♭♪).
- A flat tyre/tire.
- (in the plural) A type of ladies' shoes with very low heels.
- (in the plural) A type of flat-soled running shoe without spikes.
- A thin, broad brush used in oil and watercolor/watercolour painting.
- The flat part of something:
- A wide, shallow container or pallet.
- (mail) A large mail piece measuring at least 8 1/2 by 11 inches, such as catalogs, magazines, and unfolded paper enclosed in large envelopes.
- A railroad car without a roof, and whose body is a platform without sides; a platform car or flatcar.
- A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught.
- A subset of n-dimensional space that is congruent to a Euclidean space of lower dimension.
- A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned.
- A flat sheet for use on a bed.
- A platform on a wheel, upon which emblematic designs etc. are carried in processions.
- A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal.
- A dull fellow; a simpleton.
- (technical, theatre) A rectangular wooden structure covered with masonite, lauan, or muslin that depicts a building or other part of a scene, also called backcloth and backdrop.
- Any of various hesperiid butterflies that spread their wings open when they land.
- An early kind of toy soldier having a flat design.
- To make a flat call; to call without raising.
- To become flat or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface.
- To fall from the pitch.
- To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone.
- To make flat; to flatten; to level.
- To render dull, insipid, or spiritless; to depress.
- An apartment, usually on one level and usually consisting of more than one room.
- To beat or strike; pound
- To dash or throw
- To dash, rush