The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word ABYSM
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More clues leading to the result ABYSM
- Tips for swim past rocky bay in gulf
- Baby’s mum wiping bottom – not something one could get out of!
- In Siberia, by small crevasse
- Bother includes this for new parent – it’s bottomless
- An annoying Scotswoman heard in this pit
- Bottomless pit used by baby’s mother
- Bottomless pit revealed by baby’s mouth
- Baby’s motherland somewhere in Gulf? Just the opposite
- Fancy embassy quarter disappears into a bottomless pit
- Gulf or bay most often polluted
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The straight part
We know that "gulf" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case gulf = abysm.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does ABYSM mean?
ABYSM noun- Hell; the infernal pit; the great deep; the primal chaos.
- An abyss; a gulf, a chasm, a very deep hole.