The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 plus 5 letter word BREATHING SPACE
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result BREATHING SPACE
- Be inches apart, somehow maintaining good elbow room
- Brief respite from life at fashionable German bathing facility on the outskirts of Cologne
- Pause, having broadcast bare facts with rapidity
- How often we get inspiration — and the rest
- Pause for inspiration?
- Brief respite from working nights in busy bar — peace!
- Chance to relax, initially bothered about an object’s speed
- Robe-de-chambre — a thing spa centre stocks for relaxation time
- Brief respite in oxygen chamber perhaps?
- Brief rest matters with walk to give respite
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The straight part
We know that "Brief respite" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case brief respite = breathing space.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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