The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word LIMITS
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More clues leading to the result LIMITS
- Checks borders
- Frontiers should be plain — main test, having no odd parts
- Creates boundary — in length, it’s under one mile
- Way I take advantage of briefly lifted restrictions
- Checks note held by literary society
- The setter’s trapped by blazing sun, creating restrictions
- Stops militants fighting, sacks worker
- Restricts student, one joining US university/school
- Restrains drunk son crossing motorway
- Restrictions on Muslim? It should be transparent
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The straight part
We know that "Restricts" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case restricts = limits.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does LIMITS mean?
LIMITS noun- A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go.
- A value to which a sequence converges. Equivalently, the common value of the upper limit and the lower limit of a sequence: if the upper and lower limits are different, then the sequence has no limit (i.e., does not converge).
- Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit.
- The cone of a diagram through which any other cone of that same diagram can factor uniquely.
- Fixed limit.
- The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge.
- The space or thing defined by limits.
- That which terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent.
- A restriction; a check or curb; a hindrance.
- A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic.
- The first group of riders to depart in a handicap race.
- (as "the limit") A person who is exasperating, intolerable, astounding, etc.
- To restrict; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound, to set boundaries.
- To have a limit in a particular set.
- To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region.