The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word CHILL
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More clues leading to the result CHILL
- Hot and cold, turning unwell, with this?
- Cold, cold elevation
- On top of elevated location, caught cold
- Cold, cold mount
- Sick after church: a winter ailment
- Relax, unwell after church
- Small child unwell - this may be the cause
- What central heating problem might bring?
- Head of class unwell, nursing start of horrible cold
- Companion suffering nip
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The straight part
We know that "a winter ailment" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case a winter ailment = chill.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 CHILL mean?
CHILL noun- A moderate, but uncomfortable and penetrating coldness.
- A sudden penetrating sense of cold, especially one that causes a brief trembling nerve response through the body; the trembling response itself; often associated with illness: fevers and chills, or susceptibility to illness.
- An uncomfortable and numbing sense of fear, dread, anxiety, or alarm, often one that is sudden and usually accompanied by a trembling nerve response resembling the body's response to biting cold.
- An iron mould or portion of a mould, serving to cool rapidly, and so to harden, the surface of molten iron brought in contact with it.
- The hardened part of a casting, such as the tread of a carriage wheel.
- A lack of warmth and cordiality; unfriendliness.
- Calmness; equanimity.
- A sense of style; trendiness; savoir faire.
- To lower the temperature of something; to cool
- To become cold
- To harden a metal surface by sudden cooling
- To become hard by rapid cooling
- To relax, lie back
- To "hang", hang out; to spend time with another person or group. Also chill out.
- To smoke marijuana
- To discourage, depress
- Moderately cold or chilly.
- Unwelcoming; not cordial.
- Calm, relaxed, easygoing.
- "Cool"; meeting a certain hip standard or garnering the approval of a certain peer group.
- Okay, not a problem.