The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 letter word LYE
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More clues leading to the result LYE
- Solution for washing all dirty people's backs
- Caustic liquid left, yet unfinished
- Yankee cracking clue oddly rejected solution
- Solution for washing inside oily ears
- Second of clues still not finished for solution that comes out in the wash?
- Cleaner’s resting place reported
- Recycle intermittently? The opposite is solution
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The straight part
We know that "solution" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case solution = lye.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 LYE mean?
LYE noun- An alkaline liquid made by leaching ashes (usually wood ashes).
- Potassium or sodium hydroxide (caustic soda).
- To rest in a horizontal position on a surface.
- To be placed or situated.
- To abide; to remain for a longer or shorter time; to be in a certain state or condition.
- Used with in: to be or exist; to belong or pertain; to have an abiding place; to consist.
- Used with with: to have sexual relations with.
- Used with on/upon: to be incumbent (on); to be the responsibility of a person.
- To lodge; to sleep.
- To be still or quiet, like one lying down to rest.
- To be sustainable; to be capable of being maintained.
- To give false information intentionally with intent to deceive.
- To convey a false image or impression.
- To be mistaken or unintentionally spread false information.
- A short side line, connected with the main line; a turn-out; a siding.