The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 plus 3 letter word INSIDE OUT
I've seen this crossword clue in The Times
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More clues leading to the result INSIDE OUT
- Thoroughly popular team dismissed
- Batting team dismissed comprehensively
- At home and away, covering team very thoroughly
- Home eleven dismissed? Comprehensively
- Batting team dismissed, comprehensively
- Thoroughly showing what bowlers try to get
- Thoroughly fashionable 24 elsewhere
- Home team dismissed in total reversal
- Thoroughly topsy-turvy
- Home team blossoming thoroughly
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The straight part
We know that "comprehensively" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case comprehensively = inside out.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does INSIDE OUT mean?
INSIDE OUT adverb- With the inside surface turned to be on the outside.
- (of knowledge) Thoroughly, extremely well.
- Describes the hitting of a ball that pitched outside of leg stump to the off side of the field.
- With the inner and outer surfaces reversed.
- Describing cross-court shots made by the unexpected hand, as of a backhand return of a ball struck to the player's forehand.
- Directed to the side; sideways.
- Slanting or sloping; oblique.
- Indirect; suggestive; not straightforward.
- Along the side of something.