Cryptic crossword clue
I’m the writer with a writer’s complaint, say, working in complete absorption 9

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word IMMERSION

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The straight part
We know that "complete absorption" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case complete absorption = immersion.
The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does IMMERSION mean?

IMMERSION noun
  1. The act of immersing or the condition of being immersed.
  2. An immersion heater.
  3. A smooth map whose differential is everywhere injective, related to the mathematical concept of an embedding.
  4. The disappearance of a celestial body, by passing either behind another, as in the occultation of a star, or into its shadow, as in the eclipse of a satellite.
  5. A form of foreign-language teaching where the language is used intensively to teach other subjects to a student.

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