The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word WRENCH
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More clues leading to the result WRENCH
- Pull young girl across river
- Wife and daughter leaving soak — it's a hard decision
- Lassie clutches painter, shedding a tear
- Former sailor and companion in tug
- It’s painful leaving St Paul’s, for instance?
- Strain shown by architect connected with church
- Woman serving companion has painful separation
- Pull woman Romeo’s into
- Something adjustable architect placed on top of church
- Rick, miserable individual, with name for wasting time
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The straight part
We know that "Something adjustable" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case something adjustable = wrench.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does WRENCH mean?
WRENCH noun- A movement that twists or pulls violently; a tug.
- An injury caused by a violent twisting or pulling of a limb; strain, sprain.
- A trick or artifice.
- Deceit; guile; treachery.
- A turn at an acute angle.
- A winch or windlass.
- A screw.
- A distorting change from the original meaning.
- A hand tool for making rotational adjustments, such as fitting nuts and bolts, or fitting pipes; a spanner.
- An adjustable spanner used by plumbers.
- A violent emotional change caused by separation.
- In screw theory, a screw assembled from force and torque vectors arising from application of Newton's laws to a rigid body.
- Means; contrivance
- In coursing, the act of bringing the hare round at less than a right angle, worth half a point in the recognised code of points for judging.
- To violently move in a turn or writhe.
- To pull or twist violently.
- To turn aside or deflect.
- To slander.
- To tighten with or as if with a winch.
- To injure (a joint) by pulling or twisting.
- To distort from the original meaning.
- To thrust a weapon in a twisting motion.
- To disarm an opponent by whirling his or her blade away.
- To rack with pain.
- To deprive by means of a violent pull or twist.
- To use the tool known as a wrench.