The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 plus 5 letter word CLOSE SHAVE
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More clues leading to the result CLOSE SHAVE
- Seals experience narrow escape
- Narrow escape as Charlie evades bear
- Fail to keep quiet in underground chamber, making narrow escape
- Ends with experience from near disaster
- Shuts road after Henry’s narrow escape
- Terrible chaos with elves in narrow escape
- Shuts short road after hospital’s lucky escape
- Near thing becomes near ting? Be careful about it
- Narrow escape — from a cut-throat?
- Narrow escape — from cutting it fine?
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The straight part
We know that "narrow escape" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case narrow escape = close shave.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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