The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word REPLICATE
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result REPLICATE
- Fancy Alec knocking off a pirate copy!
- Reproduce altarpiece without a hassle
- Make another pie cooked with claret
- Copy of Rushdie’s first epic tale destroyed
- Clone it and replace free
- Clone particle spinning around electron briefly
- See 26a
- Speed – gripping saga about large ape
- LIC had followed agent's copy
- Copy — copy those on either side
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What does REPLICATE mean?
REPLICATE noun- The outcome of a replication procedure; an exact copy or replica.
- A tone that is one or more octaves away from a given tone.
- To make a copy (replica) of.
- To repeat (an experiment or trial) with a consistent result.
- To reply.
- Folded over or backward; folded back upon itself.