The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word MEETS
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More clues leading to the result MEETS
- Sporting events: matches?
- Judge rises after giving out initial answers
- Yours Truly and alien princess's close encounters
- Faces no longer fitting, sadly, at the top
- Encounters aliens on Earth following Martian leader
- Convenes where pork, beef and lamb discussed?
- Foxhunt events look to be backward – time to intervene
- NY sportsmen filled with energy for fixtures
- Effectively copes with sporting events
- Encounters between Fox and Hunt facilitated by May, perhaps
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The straight part
We know that "encounters" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case encounters = meets.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 MEETS mean?
MEETS noun- A sports competition, especially for track and field (a track meet) or swimming (a swim meet).
- A gathering of riders, horses and hounds for foxhunting; a field meet for hunting.
- A meeting of two trains in opposite directions on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other cross.
- A meeting.
- The greatest lower bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ∧.
- An act of French kissing someone.
- To make contact (with) while in proximity.
- (Of groups) To come together.
- To make physical or perceptual contact.
- To satisfy; to comply with.
- To balance or come out correct.
- To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer.
- To be mixed with, to be combined with aspects of.
- Forming a combination or nexus of.