The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word CLOSURE
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More clues leading to the result CLOSURE
- Fifty retained by firm before certain shutdown
- Resolution almost lost in course of recovery
- The end is nigh and you are blocking it
- Remedy involving large – initially very large – resolution
- Resolution made by idiot, endlessly confident
- Cold look facing certain bankruptcy
- End result of 23?
- Remedy to get round bereavement, mostly?
- Stopper almost lost in treatment
- Regularly with cell phone, it's definite end
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The straight part
We know that "End result of 23" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case end result of 23 = closure.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does CLOSURE mean?
CLOSURE noun- An event or occurrence that signifies an ending.
- A feeling of completeness; the experience of an emotional conclusion, usually to a difficult period.
- A device to facilitate temporary and repeatable opening and closing.
- An abstraction that represents a function within an environment, a context consisting of the variables that are both bound at a particular time during the execution of the program and that are within the function's scope.
- The smallest set that both includes a given subset and possesses some given property.
- (of a set) The smallest closed set which contains the given set.
- The act of shutting; a closing.
- That which closes or shuts; that by which separate parts are fastened or closed.
- That which encloses or confines; an enclosure.
- A method of ending a parliamentary debate and securing an immediate vote upon a measure before a legislative body.
- The process whereby the reader of a comic book infers the sequence of events by looking at the picture panels.