The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word OVERDRAFT
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More clues leading to the result OVERDRAFT
- Advert for disastrous loan
- Advance across delta by small boat
- Excessively stupid, entertaining Republican’s arrangement with bank
- Make too many plans? Not a good balance
- Port’s beginning to drop floating structure, causing a financial problem
- Too simple, might you say, to secure capital in retrospect — could this help?
- No more blueprint outstanding with the bank
- With which one suffers a lack of balance
- New advert for what a bank can offer
- Unduly foolish to cover banker’s last debt
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The straight part
We know that "Advance" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case advance = overdraft.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does OVERDRAFT mean?
OVERDRAFT noun- The act of overdrawing a bank account.
- The amount overdrawn.
- The maximum amount that may be overdrawn.
- The extraction of groundwater from an aquifer beyond the safe yield or equilibrium yield.
- A series of flues in a furnace; the current of air forced through them.
- To extract groundwater from (an aquifer) beyond the safe yield or equilibrium yield.