The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word CONES
C
O
N
E
S
Buddy explains!
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.
Sadly, We don't have an explanation for this specific crossword clue yet.
What does CONES mean?
CONES noun- A surface of revolution formed by rotating a segment of a line around another line that intersects the first line.
- A solid of revolution formed by rotating a triangle around one of its altitudes.
- A space formed by taking the direct product of a given space with a closed interval and identifying all of one end to a point.
- Anything shaped like a cone.
- The fruit of a conifer.
- A cone-shaped flower head of various plants, such as banksias and proteas.
- An ice cream cone.
- A traffic cone
- A unit of volume, applied solely to marijuana and only while it is in a smokable state; roughly 1.5 cubic centimetres, depending on use.
- Any of the small cone-shaped structures in the retina.
- The bowl piece on a bong.
- The process of smoking cannabis in a bong.
- A cone-shaped cannabis joint.
- A passenger on a cruise ship (so-called by employees after traffic cones, from the need to navigate around them)
- An object V together with an arrow going from V to each object of a diagram such that for any arrow A in the diagram, the pair of arrows from V which subtend A also commute with it. (Then V can be said to be the cone’s vertex and the diagram which the cone subtends can be said to be its base.)
- A shell of the genus Conus, having a conical form.
- A set of formal languages with certain desirable closure properties, in particular those of the regular languages, the context-free languages and the recursively enumerable languages.
- To fashion into the shape of a cone.
- To form a cone shape.
- (frequently followed by "off") To segregate or delineate an area using traffic cones