The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word GRASS
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More clues leading to the result GRASS
- Split blades
- Informer that may be regularly 12?
- Shop less, arguably, after going around stores
- Informer comprehends losing power
- Singer right to break wind by saxophonist’s head
- Writer stalks singer?
- Rat and skunk perhaps …
- Novelist from Greece New Yorker’s behind
- Novelist who wrote The Rat is a Rat
- Vacuous geezer, a twit or dope
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The straight part
We know that "Split/blades" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case split/blades = grass.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does GRASS mean?
GRASS noun- Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.
- Various plants not in family Poaceae that resemble grasses.
- A lawn.
- Marijuana.
- An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities.
- Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube, produced by random interference.
- Noise on an A-scope or similar type of radar display.
- The season of fresh grass; spring or summer.
- That which is transitory.
- (folk etymology) Asparagus; "sparrowgrass".
- The surface of a mine.
- To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.).
- To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities.
- To cover with grass or with turf.
- To feed with grass.
- To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.
- To bring to the grass or ground; to land.