The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word PATH
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result PATH
- Smooth, hard track
- Horse to follow flawlessly finding way through?
- Way to caress husband
- Light touch over hard course
- Way line emerges from poet
- Course provided by alternative practitioner leaving base close to Oslo
- Track parking at hospital
- . Pub on map is keeping to route
- Course of action at entering pub?
- Party to develop a “Third Way”
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The straight part
We know that "A course for non-drivers" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case a course for non-drivers = path.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 PATH mean?
PATH noun- A trail for the use of, or worn by, pedestrians.
- A course taken.
- A Pagan tradition, for example witchcraft, Wicca, druidism, Heathenry.
- A metaphorical course.
- A method or direction of proceeding.
- A human-readable specification for a location within a hierarchical or tree-like structure, such as a file system or as part of a URL.
- A sequence of vertices from one vertex to another using the arcs (edges). A path does not visit the same vertex more than once (unless it is a closed path, where only the first and the last vertex are the same).
- A continuous map f from the unit interval I = [0,1] to a topological space X.
- A slot available for allocation to a railway train over a given route in between other trains.
- To make a path in, or on (something), or for (someone).
- (abbreviation) Pathology.