Cryptic crossword clue
Settled on road during exigency 6

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

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The straight part
We know that "Settled" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case settled = nested.
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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What does NESTED mean?

NESTED verb
  1. (of animals) To build or settle into a nest.
  2. To settle into a home.
  3. To successively neatly fit inside another.
  4. To place in, or as if in, a nest.
  5. To place one thing neatly inside another, and both inside yet another (and so on).
  6. To hunt for birds' nests or their contents (usually "go nesting").
NESTED adjective
  1. Embedded.
  2. Successively fitted one inside another.
  3. (Of a lexical item) contained within a dictionary entry as a subordinate term of the main headword.

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