The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word NARRATION
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More clues leading to the result NARRATION
- A bishop visits country, storytelling
- Managed to get raise with share account
- People round a theologian for reading of story?
- People mobbing a bishop in Reading
- Managed rising artist moving into storytelling
- Story turned into rant on air
- Managed to see increase with share account
- Ran up share account
- Storytelling has arrived in the country
- Result of Republican fighters entering race? That’d be telling
Buddy explains!
The straight part
We know that "recital" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case recital = narration.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does NARRATION mean?
NARRATION noun- The act of recounting or relating in order the particulars of some action, occurrence, or affair; a narrating.
- That which is narrated or recounted; an orderly recital of the details and particulars of some transaction or event, or of a series of transactions or events; a story or narrative.
- That part of an oration in which the speaker makes his or her statement of facts.