The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word AIRER
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More clues leading to the result AIRER
- Increasingly just ignoring first item in laundry
- Republic once sounded drier
- Drying equipment is lighter after top’s removed
- Shower that’s needed after washing?
- Female lost to prettier maiden
- Drier river taking last of water
- Clothes horse in legionnaire regalia
- With beginnings of asthma, is reaching with hesitation for ventilator
- Two rivers drier
- Kitchen item increasingly just overlooked at first
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The straight part
We know that "Shower/that’s needed after washing?" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case shower/that’s needed after washing? = airer.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 AIRER mean?
AIRER noun- A framework upon which laundry is aired; a clotheshorse.