The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word INTESTATE
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More clues leading to the result INTESTATE
- Lacking the will, or much money, not starting car
- Passed dude with no will to take right off US road
- Unwilling, run out of road in America
- Lacking will to reject place in fashionable gallery?
- Home match – worried when Will’s not available
- Digger finally departs from highway, leaving nothing behind
- Indicative of a lack of will
- Not willing to try boring cooking, eat in
- ‘American Way’ missing Republican, lacking a will
- Lacking will to remove first bit of rubble from main road in USA
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The straight part
We know that "Lacking will" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case lacking will = intestate.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does INTESTATE mean?
INTESTATE noun- A person who dies without making a valid will.
- Without a valid will indicating whom to leave one's estate to after death.
- Not devised or bequeathed; not disposed of by will.