The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word CYCLE
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More clues leading to the result CYCLE
- Start and end of crappy clue not top-class? It gets repeated periodically
- Series of recurrent low-level cyclones
- A hundred years, approximately, before the French Revolution
- Raleigh produced it to help make policy clear
- Endless succession of agency clerks
- Age requirement to compete in Tour de France?
- Transport / schedule?
- Use a chopper?
- An age of Regency clergy
- Set extremely crafty clue not understood at first
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The straight part
We know that "Raleigh produced it" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case raleigh produced it = cycle.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does CYCLE mean?
CYCLE noun- An interval of space or time in which one set of events or phenomena is completed.
- A complete rotation of anything.
- A process that returns to its beginning and then repeats itself in the same sequence.
- The members of the sequence formed by such a process.
- In musical set theory, an interval cycle is the set of pitch classes resulting from repeatedly applying the same interval class to the starting pitch class.
- A series of poems, songs or other works of art.
- A programme on a washing machine, dishwasher, or other such device.
- A pedal-powered vehicle, such as a unicycle, bicycle, or tricycle, or a motorized vehicle that has either two or three wheels.
- A single, a double, a triple, and a home run hit by the same player in the same game.
- A closed walk or path, with or without repeated vertices allowed.
- (algebraic topology) A chain whose boundary is zero.
- An imaginary circle or orbit in the heavens; one of the celestial spheres.
- An age; a long period of time.
- An orderly list for a given time; a calendar.
- One entire round in a circle or a spire.
- A discharge of a taser.
- To ride a bicycle or other cycle.
- To go through a cycle or to put through a cycle.
- To turn power off and back on
- To maintain a team's possession of the puck in the offensive zone by handling and passing the puck in a loop from the boards near the goal up the side boards and passing to back to the boards near the goal