The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word EXTORT
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More clues leading to the result EXTORT
- Milk one loved before turning red?
- To obtain by coercion is no longer illegal act
- Secure by intimidation in text or tweet
- Forcefully acquire gold held by former abstainer
- Key vote leftist returned to secure by intimidation
- Shake down old revolutionary that’s turned up
- Of late, wrong to demand with menaces
- Milk and old cake unfinished
- Exact, though once wrong?
- Exact legal error attributed to former lover
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The straight part
We know that "To obtain by coercion" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case to obtain by coercion = extort.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does EXTORT mean?
EXTORT verb- To take or seize off an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity
- To obtain by means of the offense of extortion.
- To twist outwards.
- Wrongfully obtained.