The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word NERVELESS
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More clues leading to the result NERVELESS
- Feeble or calm and collected?
- Revel wildly in loch, lacking anxiety, perhaps
- Small second soccer team around end of October regressed, becoming flabby
- Composed cleverness that’s heading off for disaster
- Lever turned in head to make you calm
- Calm upstanding figure maintaining order finally on ship
- Cool
- Slack lever twisted entering headland
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Crossword Answer definitions
NERVELESS adjective- Lacking nerve: fearful; cowardly.
- Lacking a nervous system.
- Devoid of nerves: calm, controlled, cool under pressure.