Cryptic crossword clue
Tungsten and lead club 5

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word WEDGE

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The straight part
We know that "club" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case club = wedge.
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What does WEDGE mean?

WEDGE noun
  1. One of the simple machines; a piece of material, such as metal or wood, thick at one edge and tapered to a thin edge at the other for insertion in a narrow crevice, used for splitting, tightening, securing, or levering.
  2. A piece (of food, metal, wood etc.) having this shape.
  3. A five-sided polyhedron with a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.
  4. Something that creates a division, gap or distance between things.
  5. A flank of cavalry acting to split some portion of an opposing army, charging in an inverted V formation.
  6. A type of iron club used for short, high trajectories.
  7. A group of geese, swans or other birds when they are in flight in a V formation.
  8. One of a pair of wedge-heeled shoes.
  9. A quantity of money.
  10. A sandwich made on a long, cylindrical roll.
  11. Háček
  12. The IPA character ʌ, which denotes an open-mid back unrounded vowel.
  13. The symbol ∧, denoting a meet (infimum) operation or logical conjunction.
  14. A wedge tornado.
  15. A market trend characterized by a contracting range in prices coupled with an upward trend in prices (a rising wedge) or a downward trend in prices (a falling wedge).
WEDGE verb
  1. To support or secure using a wedge.
  2. To force into a narrow gap.
  3. To work wet clay by cutting or kneading for the purpose of homogenizing the mass and expelling air bubbles.
  4. Of a computer program or system: to get stuck in an unresponsive state.
  5. To cleave with a wedge.
  6. To force or drive with a wedge.
  7. To shape into a wedge.
WEDGE noun
  1. (Cambridge University slang) The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos.

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