The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word RELEASE
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More clues leading to the result RELEASE
- Announcement about rental agreement
- Free to renew property contract?
- Film, maybe: High School Musical — not grand, the Spanish admitted
- Genuine freedom missing first article put out
- Rare vacant tenancy agreement — it's free!
- Again let free
- Publish charter again
- Issue concerning tenancy agreement
- Full relief after only 50 per cent relief brings freedom
- Let out once – or more than once?
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The straight part
We know that "Issue" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case issue = release.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does RELEASE mean?
RELEASE noun- The event of setting (someone or something) free (e.g. hostages, slaves, prisoners, caged animals, hooked or stuck mechanisms).
- The distribution of an initial or new and upgraded version of a computer software product; the distribution can be either public or private.
- Anything recently released or made available (as for sale).
- That which is released, untied or let go.
- The giving up of a claim, especially a debt.
- Liberation from pain or suffering.
- The process by which a chemical substance is set free.
- (sound synthesis) The act or manner of ending a sound.
- In the block system, a printed card conveying information and instructions to be used at intermediate sidings without telegraphic stations.
- A device adapted to hold or release a device or mechanism as required.
- To let go (of); to cease to hold or contain.
- To make available to the public.
- To free or liberate; to set free.
- To discharge.
- (of a call) To hang up.
- To let go, as a legal claim; to discharge or relinquish a right to, as lands or tenements, by conveying to another who has some right or estate in possession, as when the person in remainder releases his right to the tenant in possession; to quit.
- To loosen; to relax; to remove the obligation of.
- To set up; to provide with a goal-scoring opportunity
- To set free a chemical substance.
- To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.