The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word INHERITED
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More clues leading to the result INHERITED
- I’d neither gone off or was left
- Having received a legacy, home help’s half-embarrassed about it
- Home he tried renovating, obtained from previous generations
- Like legacy I wasted in the red
- The insider trading with no shares finally came into money
- Succeeded at home — and her diet is bad
- From being in the red, I came into money
- 11 She’s involved in it, regularly sends what’s handed down
- Came by fashionable woman's special diet
- Got in the ride shaking
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The straight part
We know that "Came by" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case came by = inherited.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 INHERITED mean?
INHERITED verb- To take possession of as a right (especially in Biblical translations).
- To receive (property, a title, etc.), by legal succession or bequest after the previous owner's death.
- To receive a characteristic from one's ancestors by genetic transmission.
- To derive from people or conditions previously in force.
- To come into an inheritance.
- To derive (existing functionality) from a superclass.
- To derive a new class from (a superclass).
- To put in possession of.
- Obtained via an inheritance
- Hereditary.