The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word CREEP
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More clues leading to the result CREEP
- Chicks originally look to pull up worm
- Toady caught aristocrat returning
- Move furtively and quietly behind cowboy’s enemy?
- Nasty person gets record on credit note
- Progress slowly beginning to concern and upset lord
- Fawn mushroom, almost scarlet inside?
- Inch worm
- Yes-man’s language quiet
- Indian page who tries to suck up to boss?
- Regularly use scarce help to make gradual progress
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The straight part
We know that "Progress slowly" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case progress slowly = creep.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does CREEP mean?
CREEP verb- To move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground.
- Of plants, to grow across a surface rather than upwards.
- To move slowly and quietly in a particular direction.
- To make small gradual changes, usually in a particular direction.
- To move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to steal in; to insinuate itself or oneself.
- To slip, or to become slightly displaced.
- To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn.
- To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl.
- To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.
- To covertly have sex (with a person other than one's primary partner); to cheat with.
- The movement of something that creeps (like worms or snails)
- A relatively small gradual change, variation or deviation (from a planned value) in a measure.
- A slight displacement of an object: the slight movement of something
- The gradual expansion or proliferation of something beyond its original goals or boundaries, considered negatively.
- In sewn books, the tendency of pages on the inside of a quire to stand out farther than those on the outside of it.
- An increase in strain with time; the gradual flow or deformation of a material under stress.
- The imperceptible downslope movement of surface rock.
- Someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric.
- A frightening and/or disconcerting person, especially one who gives the speaker chills.
- A barrier with small openings used to keep large animals out while allowing smaller animals to pass through.