Cryptic crossword clue
Reduces speed in thickets 6

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word BRAKES

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The straight part

We know that "Reduces speed/thickets" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case reduces speed/thickets = brakes.

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What does BRAKES mean?

1. A fern; bracken.

1. A thicket, or an area overgrown with briers etc.

1. A tool used for breaking flax or hemp.
2. A type of machine for bending sheet metal. (See wikipedia.)
3. A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods after ploughing; a drag.

1. To bruise and crush; to knead
2. To pulverise with a harrow

1. An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista.
2. The handle of a pump.
3. A device used to slow or stop the motion of a wheel, or of a vehicle, by friction; also, the controls or apparatus used to engage such a mechanism such as the pedal in a car.
4. A baker's kneading trough.
5. A device used to confine or prevent the motion of an animal.
6. That part of a carriage, as of a movable battery, or engine, which enables it to turn.

1. To operate (a) brake(s).
2. To be stopped or slowed (as if) by braking.

1. A cage.
2. A type of torture instrument.

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