The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word ACCIDENTS
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result ACCIDENTS
- Bill joins detectives sent out after crashes?
- Cockney and Geordie, say, touring US state have more than one mishap
- Distance when flying to check carbon disasters
- Stress about papers with small mistakes
- With stress beginning to spread around, I had bad things happening
- Bill joins detectives sent out following crashes
- In stress, I’d start to show blunders
- Styles of pronunciation conceal identity and give rise to mishaps
- and 15A. Watch lead pencil spin crazily as misfortunes may occur.
- Stresses about one day’s mishaps
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The straight part
We know that "crashes" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case crashes = accidents.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 ACCIDENTS mean?
ACCIDENTS noun- An unexpected event with negative consequences occurring without the intention of the one suffering the consequences.
- Especially, a collision or similar unintended event that causes damage or death.
- Any chance event.
- Chance.
- Any property, fact, or relation that is the result of chance or is nonessential.
- An instance of incontinence.
- An unintended pregnancy.
- A quality or attribute in distinction from the substance, as sweetness, softness.
- (grammar) A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, such as gender, number, or case.
- An irregular surface feature with no apparent cause.
- A sudden discontinuity of ground such as fault of great thickness, bed or lentil of unstable ground.
- A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms.
- Casus; such unforeseen, extraordinary, extraneous interference as is out of the range of ordinary calculation.
- Appearance, manifestation.