The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word DITCH
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More clues leading to the result DITCH
- Water may flow through this land in the sea
- Scrap old copper to burn?
- Days on long canal
- Drop daughter with it by church
- Abandon urge to follow Democrat
- Make emergency landing in Channel
- D-desire to dump
- The last place to fight
- Get rid of slight problem with daughter supplanting husband
- Abandon urge to follow daughters
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The straight part
We know that "Scrap" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case scrap = ditch.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does DITCH mean?
DITCH noun- A trench; a long, shallow indentation, as for irrigation or drainage.
- To discard or abandon.
- To deliberately crash-land an airplane on water.
- To deliberately not attend classes; to play hookey.
- To dig ditches.
- To dig ditches around.
- To throw into a ditch.
- Dirt ingrained on the hands, or in cracks, crevices, etc.
- To smear, daub, plaster, or impregnate, especially with dirt which becomes hard and ingrained.