The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word SPLAT
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More clues leading to the result SPLAT
- Sound made by learner involved in row
- Noise on landing strip softly cuts through
- Row about large impact noise
- Impact, by the sound of it, reversed in experimental psychology
- Climbing mountains tricky at first. Don’t fall like this!
- Argument about learner having crashed by the sound of it
- At the outset, straining posterior muscle produces an amusing noise
- Part of chair back, thin wooden strip receiving pressure
- Fight to grab long piece of wood
- Dispute about large tomato’s impact
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The straight part
We know that "Part of chair back," is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case part of chair back, = splat.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does SPLAT mean?
SPLAT noun- The narrow wooden centre piece of a chair back.
- The sharp, atonal sound of a liquid or soft solid hitting a solid surface.
- The irregular shape of a viscous liquid or soft solid which has hit a solid surface.
- The Command key on an Apple Macintosh.
- Any of various characters appearing in computer character sets.
- A move in playboating involving stalling in place while positioned vertically against a solid object in the water.
- To hit a flat surface and deform into an irregular shape.
- To splatter.
- To combine different textures by applying an alpha channel map to the higher levels, revealing the layers underneath where the map is partially or completely transparent.