The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word IMMEDIATE
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result IMMEDIATE
- Just over three foot channels, note, are direct
- This writer's means of communicating with article heartlessly direct
- I am to act as a go-between next
- Now‘s the wrong time to constrain mass communications
- Present time bad to shackle news providers
- Direct broadcasting etc in turbulent time
- I made time up without delay
- Current cooking item cut by TV, radio etc
- Maybe newspapers will break questionable item without delay
- Instant act as broker to support firm regularly
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The straight part
We know that "Direct" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case direct = immediate.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 IMMEDIATE mean?
IMMEDIATE adjective- Happening right away, instantly, with no delay.
- Very close; direct or adjacent.
- Manifestly true; requiring no argument.
- (of an instruction operand) embedded as part of the instruction itself, rather than stored elsewhere (such as a register or memory location)
- (procedure word) Used to denote that a transmission is urgent.
- (procedure word) An artillery fire mission modifier for to types of fire mission to denote an immediate need for fire: Immediate smoke, all guns involved must reload smoke and fire. Immediate suppression, all guns involved fire the rounds currently loaded and then switch to high explosive with impact fused (unless fuses are specified).