The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word INTELLECT
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More clues leading to the result INTELLECT
- At home, instruct, excite oddly, showing brainpower
- Terry in a familiar way retained by fancy client for brainpower
- Popular report’s shocking treatment for great thinker
- Reason client let out
- Lease revoked in disturbed client’s mind
- Brain in folk hero William addled etc
- Mind and matter engaged by popular controversial therapy
- Mind Celt let in mistakenly
- Mind cricket, for instance, neglecting society without order
- Brilliance client somehow overcomes constraint; overturns
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The straight part
We know that "sense" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case sense = intellect.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 INTELLECT mean?
INTELLECT noun- The faculty of thinking, judging, abstract reasoning, and conceptual understanding; the cognitive faculty (uncountable)
- The capacity of that faculty (in a particular person) (uncountable)
- A person who has that faculty to a great degree