The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word CARVE
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More clues leading to the result CARVE
- Chop end off dining chair
- Victor in trouble, cut deeply
- Cut volume in what NHS provides
- Mind about start of verse getting cut
- Cut up rough at first in underground hollow
- Cut right through hollow
- Coe’s best-known achievement involved this dodgy sporting arrangement
- Vet tailed by vehicle is cut up
- Make a sculpture with victory in mind
- Number feel concern about cut
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The straight part
We know that "cut deeply" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case cut deeply = carve.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does CARVE mean?
CARVE noun- A carucate.
- The act of carving
- To cut.
- To cut meat in order to serve it.
- To shape to sculptural effect; to produce (a work) by cutting, or to cut (a material) into a finished work.
- To perform a series of turns without pivoting, so that the tip and tail of the snowboard take the same path.
- To take or make, as by cutting; to provide.
- To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan.