The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word HAPPINESS
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More clues leading to the result HAPPINESS
- Joy has to keep quiet and languishes
- Peculiar shapes securing fastener produce contentment
- Topless man craves small pleasure
- Good spirits Spanish people emptied out
- Felicity longs to get into shape, endlessly cycling around
- Delight in strange sin, perhaps? Not right
- Program goes through, she’s in extraordinarily high spirits!
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The straight part
We know that "Joy" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case joy = happiness.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 HAPPINESS mean?
HAPPINESS noun- The emotion of being happy; joy.
- Prosperity, thriving, wellbeing.
- Good luck; good fortune.
- Fortuitous elegance; unstudied grace; — used especially of language.