The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 1 plus 3 plus 4 plus 6 letter word I BEG YOUR PARDON
I've seen this crossword clue in The Guardian
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More clues leading to the result I BEG YOUR PARDON
- Forgive me for what?
- Please let me go or come again
- What good is messing with repair — buy new!
- What poor guy bared in pants?
- Guardian’s put through edited parody, being sorry?
- Sorry, I spoil par round with bogey
- What? Setter’s to ask for solver’s forgiveness?
- What disrupted boy, reading with leaderless group
- A purer boy doing wrong offers an apology
- Sorry round with bogey pair unravelled
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The straight part
We know that "sorry" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case sorry = i beg your pardon.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.
Sadly, We don't have an explanation for this specific crossword clue yet.