The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word HURRICANE
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More clues leading to the result HURRICANE
- Short belt - one form of punishment creating a storm!
- Fly murderer, say, into storm
- Ben running race in wild weather
- WWII fighter that gets the wind up
- One getting stick after lessening of speed, a great blow
- Plane once flew briefly around Canada
- Raunchier broadcast provoking storm
- Rushes endlessly to save vessel in storm
- Endlessly ran around bog producing enormous wind
- Cyclone is reportedly a speed-killer
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The straight part
We know that "storm" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case storm = hurricane.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does HURRICANE mean?
HURRICANE noun- A severe tropical cyclone in the North Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, or in the eastern North Pacific off the west coast of Mexico, with winds of 119 km/h (74 miles per hour) or greater accompanied by rain, lightning, and thunder that sometimes moves into temperate latitudes.
- A wind scale for quite strong wind, stronger than a storm
- (aerial freestyle skiing) "full—triple-full—full" – an acrobatic maneuver consisting of three flips and five twists, with one twist on the first flip, three twists on the second flip, one twist on the third flip