The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 10 letter word MANUSCRIPT
I've seen this crossword clue in The Guardian
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More clues leading to the result MANUSCRIPT
- Manchester United’s epitaph in court document
- Football team’s caught by trip arranged in writing
- Handwritten letter in old lady’s vault read out loud
- Handwriting being essentially lousy on instruction to pharmacist
- The earliest literary form
- Text seen in margins of memoirs?
- Ancient Indian writing — it can be sent to a publisher
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The straight part
We know that "writing" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case writing = manuscript.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 MANUSCRIPT mean?
MANUSCRIPT noun- A book, composition or any other document, written by hand (or manually typewritten), not mechanically reproduced.
- A single, original copy of a book, article, composition etc, written by hand or even printed, submitted as original for (copy-editing and) reproductive publication.
- Handwritten, or by extension manually typewritten, as opposed to being mechanically reproduced.