Cryptic crossword clue
6   Pirates, in the end, sadly undone by ship's strength  9

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word SOUNDNESS

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The straight part
We know that "strength" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case strength = soundness.
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 SOUNDNESS mean?

SOUNDNESS noun
  1. The state or quality of being sound.
  2. The result or product of being sound.
  3. The property (of an argument) of not only being valid, but also of having true premises.
  4. The property of a logical theory that whenever a wff is a theorem then it must also be valid. Symbolically, letting T represent a theory within logic L, this can be represented as the property that whenever T \vdash \phi is true, then T \vDash \phi must also be true, for any wff φ of logic L.

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