The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word INTRINSIC
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result INTRINSIC
- Opening bar round home thus essential
- Popular coach, when heart deficient, so essential
- Underlying insincerity leaving enquiry’s case compromised
- Essential to get home by train, leaving behind a second-in- command
- It’s essential latest trains scrap one in charge
- Preparation of ricin isn’t essential
- Native in Turkey’s elected thus
- Genuine sporting coach missing midfielder thus?
- It’s ironic somehow about North wasting nothing essential
- Central air-conditioners blowing to let out nasty A&E ‘odor’
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The straight part
We know that "Essential" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case essential = intrinsic.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 INTRINSIC mean?
INTRINSIC noun- A built-in function that is implemented directly by the compiler, without any intermediate call to a library.
- An ability possessed by a character and not requiring any external equipment.
- Innate, inherent, inseparable from the thing itself, essential.
- (of a body part) Situated, produced, secreted in, or coming from inside an organ, tissue, muscle or member.