The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word LABYRINTH
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result LABYRINTH
- Year supporting research facility in reducing the perplexity?
- Los Angeles Times editor’s final hint about intricate passages
- Los Angeles Times runs international hotel complex
- Intricate and confusing arrangement of surprisingly tiny bar in large hotel
- There’s a complicated network thy brain will ultimately fire off
- Briny solution in building material for complex construction
- It has misleading passages
- Planning a birth, only without oxygen, is a thing that’s difficult to negotiate
- It may be difficult to get out of bra, thinly fashioned
- ‘Amaze’ in two words — and one in one’s ear
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The straight part
We know that "Intricate and confusing arrangement" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case intricate and confusing arrangement = labyrinth.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 LABYRINTH mean?
LABYRINTH noun- A maze-like structure built by Daedalus in Knossos, containing the Minotaur.
- Part of the inner ear.
- Anything complicated and confusing, like a maze.
- Any of various satyrine butterflies of the genus Neope.
- To enclose in a labyrinth, or as though in a labyrinth.
- To arrange in the form of a labyrinth.
- To twist and wind, following a labyrinthine path.
- To render lost and confused, as if in a labyrinth.