The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word ELONGATED
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result ELONGATED
- Criminal ten gaoled, given a stretch
- Happy about nothing, no good going further
- Delighted about content of songs being extended
- Unmarked fruit kept in college is pulled out
- Extended barrier in eastern capital? Not on
- Fluid end with legato stretched out
- I leave delegation angrily, as it is protracted
- Happy to hold on, good when stretched
- Stretched out to exercise a toned leg
- Lone good date is exotic and stretched out
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What does ELONGATED mean?
ELONGATED verb- To make long or longer by pulling and stretching; to make elongated.
- To become long or longer by being pulled or stretched; to become elongated.
- To move to or place at a distance (from something).
- To depart to, or be at, a distance (from something); especially, to recede apparently from the sun, as a planet in its orbit.
- Extensive in length
- Stretched
- (of a polyhedron) Having been modified by placing a prism in the middle of the polyhedron.