The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word SWING
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result SWING
- Celebrate outside with jazzy music
- Small limb child plays on
- Decisively influence southern faction
- Brandish small arm
- Chorus incorporates western dance music
- Such music is child’s play
- Music genre influential on election night?
- Golfing action from second player on side
- Perform as choir, embracing western style of music
- Wangle carpenter’s job without one
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The straight part
We know that "Wangle" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case wangle = swing.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does SWING mean?
SWING noun- The manner in which something is swung.
- The sweep or compass of a swinging body.
- A line, cord, or other thing suspended and hanging loose, upon which anything may swing.
- A hanging seat in a children's playground, for acrobats in a circus, or on a porch for relaxing.
- A dance style.
- The genre of music associated with this dance style.
- The amount of change towards or away from something.
- Sideways movement of the ball as it flies through the air.
- Capacity of a turning lathe, as determined by the diameter of the largest object that can be turned in it.
- In a musical theater production, a performer who understudies several roles.
- A basic dance step in which a pair link hands and turn round together in a circle.
- Free course; unrestrained liberty.
- Influence or power of anything put in motion.
- A type of hook with the arm more extended.
- To rotate about an off-centre fixed point.
- To dance.
- To ride on a swing.
- To participate in the swinging lifestyle; to participate in wife-swapping.
- To hang from the gallows.
- (of a ball) to move sideways in its trajectory.
- To fluctuate or change.
- To move (an object) backward and forward; to wave.
- To change (a numerical result); especially to change the outcome of an election.
- To make (something) work; especially to afford (something) financially.
- To play notes that are in pairs by making the first of the pair slightly longer than written (augmentation) and the second shorter, resulting in a bouncy, uneven rhythm.
- (of a bowler) to make the ball move sideways in its trajectory.
- To move one's arm in a punching motion.
- In dancing, to turn around in a small circle with one's partner, holding hands or arms.
- To admit or turn something for the purpose of shaping it; said of a lathe.
- To put (a door, gate, etc.) on hinges so that it can swing or turn.
- To turn round by action of wind or tide when at anchor.