The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word STAGGERED
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More clues leading to the result STAGGERED
- Shocked to find animal beginning to graze next to wounded deer
- Ancient earthwork in original condition? One’s amazed
- Surprised but not all at once
- Arranged systematically; shocked!
- At intervals, walked unsteadily
- . Flabbergasted by // unsteady movement
- Surprised Doctor ate eggs scrambled
- Astonished head of government's in step with revolutionary
- Bad grades get evenly distributed
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The straight part
We know that "evenly distributed" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case evenly distributed = staggered.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does STAGGERED mean?
STAGGERED verb- Sway unsteadily, reel, or totter.
- Doubt, waver, be shocked.
- Have multiple groups doing the same thing in a uniform fashion, but starting at different, evenly-spaced, times or places (attested from 1856).
- Astonished, taken aback.
- Arranged in a way that is not uniform.