The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word POKER
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More clues leading to the result POKER
- Person who digs a gambling game?
- Index finger perhaps where one has a hand?
- Card game that can get red hot
- OK splits for each card game
- Permissible in each game
- Where a hand may be straight, one pointing the finger?
- Satisfactory cuts for every card game
- Permissible lining for every device used in fire management
- Fire controller for game
- Metal rod for hand-to-hand combat?
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The straight part
We know that "Where a hand may be straight/one pointing the finger" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case where a hand may be straight/one pointing the finger = poker.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 POKER mean?
POKER noun- A metal rod, generally of wrought iron, for adjusting the burning logs or coals in a fire; a firestick.
- A tool like a soldering iron for making poker drawings.
- One who pokes.
- A kind of duck, the pochard.
- Any of various card games in which, following each of one or more rounds of dealing or revealing cards, the players in sequence make tactical bets or drop out, the bets forming a pool to be taken either by the sole remaining player or, after all rounds and bets have been completed, by those remaining players who hold a superior hand according to a standard ranking of hand values for the game.
- All the four cards of the same rank.
- Any imagined frightful object, especially one supposed to haunt the darkness; a bugbear.