The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word ORIENTATE
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result ORIENTATE
- Determine position of old gallery accepting nothing French
- Find oneself nothing French to eat cooked outside
- Get used to London team number, it’s said
- Adjust tie, neat or otherwise
- Find oneself getting round Aintree
- Fix position — which is north — and turn around, making a tiny adjustment
- Establish position unsettling to trainee
- Adjust attire, one being sloppy
- Footballers worried to leave the West implicitly?
- Adjust to surroundings, losing a little time in east gallery
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The straight part
We know that "Adjust" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case adjust = orientate.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does ORIENTATE mean?
ORIENTATE verb- To face a given direction.
- To determine one's position relative to the surroundings; to orient (oneself).
- To arrange in order; to dispose or place (a body) so as to show its relation to other bodies, or the relation of its parts among themselves.
- To position (something), to align relative to a given position.
- To move or turn toward the east; to veer from the north or south toward the east.