Cryptic crossword clue
Watergate: various clues lead to impeachment 6

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word SLUICE

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The straight part
We know that "Watergate" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case watergate = sluice.
The cryptic/wordplay part
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This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does SLUICE mean?

SLUICE noun
  1. An artificial passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, for example in a canal lock or a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow.
  2. A water gate or floodgate.
  3. Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
  4. The stream flowing through a floodgate.
  5. A long box or trough through which water flows, used for washing auriferous earth.
  6. An instance of wh-stranding ellipsis, or sluicing.
SLUICE verb
  1. To emit by, or as by, flood gates.
  2. To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice
  3. To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice.
  4. (more generally) To wash (down or out).
  5. To flow, pour.
  6. To elide the C` in a coordinated wh-question. See sluicing.

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