Cryptic crossword clue
Inventor failing to maintain staff living conditions 11

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 11 letter word ENVIRONMENT

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The straight part
We know that "living conditions" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case living conditions = environment.
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 ENVIRONMENT mean?

ENVIRONMENT noun
  1. The surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest.
  2. The natural world or ecosystem.
  3. All the elements that affect a system or its inputs and outputs.
  4. A particular political or social setting, arena or condition.
  5. The software and/or hardware existing on any particular computer system.
  6. The environment of a function at a point during the execution of a program is the set of identifiers in the function's scope and their bindings at that point.
  7. The set of variables and their values in a namespace that an operating system associates with a process.

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