The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word IDENTIKIT
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More clues leading to the result IDENTIKIT
- Woolly tie I’d knit is uninteresting
- Range of features I knitted together with one suspect?
- Like a formulaic pattern I repeatedly knitted badly
- I study note with equipment that’s formulaic
- Facial make-up used by the police
- Study image in computing that’s formulaic
- An artificially reconstructed picture, it’s about a cave with Polynesian god’s image
- I would attach a letter with the note on the equipment — it may aid the police
- One dress I knitted is uninteresting
- Suspect image of Matilda with one wearing knitted pattern
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The straight part
We know that "it may aid the police" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case it may aid the police = identikit.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 IDENTIKIT mean?
IDENTIKIT noun- A picture of a person, reconstructed from strips showing facial features selected to match witnesses' descriptions; used by the police to build a likeness of a person sought for a crime.
- A composite sketch generated by a sketch artist, software, or a box of facial features on transparent foils that police officers and other public service professionals use to create a likeness of a person from a witness description.
- Indistinguishable from each other; mass-produced or mass-marketed.