The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word FORESTALL
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result FORESTALL
- Anticipate growth of planes etc, the entire fleet?
- Prevent fluorine minerals being piled up high
- Stop Nottingham team getting ahead of the entire field?
- Prevent everyone going to the end of wood
- Prevent break behind ring in sink
- Stop or set off during US season
- Prevent everyone supporting Nottingham players
- Head off everybody to the south of Arden, perhaps
- Warning from driver’s unlikely? Anticipate and stop
- Plant trees on each and every stop
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The straight part
We know that "Head off" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case head off = forestall.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does FORESTALL mean?
FORESTALL verb- To prevent, delay or hinder something by taking precautionary or anticipatory measures; to avert.
- To preclude or bar from happening, render impossible.
- To purchase the complete supply of a good, particularly foodstuffs, in order to charge a monopoly price.
- To anticipate, to act foreseeingly.
- To deprive (with of).
- To obstruct or stop up, as a road; to stop the passage of a highway; to intercept on the road, as goods on the way to market.
- An ambush; plot; an interception; waylaying; rescue.
- Something situated or placed in front.