The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 11 letter word TEETOTALLER
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result TEETOTALLER
- Abstemious type stocktaking in golfing store?
- Kind of cross summer’s a dry one
- Abstainer, one calculating amount of Assam, do we hear?
- One is more unlikely to imbibe dram after endless beer?
- Lee and Al totter drunkenly — neither being this?
- Does Lipton statistician sound dry?
- Sports supporter, over the summer, getting no supper?
- Dry man, does he count all the holes, except the nineteenth, of course?
- A cart reversing into bank clerk, one on the wagon
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The straight part
We know that "Dry man" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case dry man = teetotaller.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does TEETOTALLER mean?
TEETOTALLER noun- A person who completely abstains from alcoholic beverages.