The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 plus 2 plus 3 plus 4 letter word PAIN IN THE NECK
I've seen this crossword clue in The Sunday Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result PAIN IN THE NECK
- Bloomin' nuisance, sound of glass in top of bottle
- Drag peacenik off grasping ordinal
- A real problem that Dracula might cause?
- Torticollis — or a headache?
- Crick, say, tedious person
- Headache — suffering a little further down?
- New pine kitchen? An awful bore
- Bore‘s medical condition
- Complaint made by a tiresome person
- With this annoyance, turning one's head may be a problem
Buddy explains!
The straight part
We know that "Crick/tedious person" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case crick/tedious person = pain in the neck.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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