The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word DISAPPEAR
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result DISAPPEAR
- Go and be rude to a lord in speech
- Loudly insult a contemporary and depart
- Leave daughter one fruit with juice on
- Briefly, did fruit containing juice die out?
- Female engineer ace being brought in to go down a hole?
- 7 Paper said to come out and leave no trace
- Leave daughter one type of fruit with juice on
- Show contempt for dad overturning fruit split
- Mostly peach — and a soft fruit — go missing
- Go immediately – extremely injured sapper needs first aid badly
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The straight part
We know that "Leave" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case leave = disappear.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 DISAPPEAR mean?
DISAPPEAR verb- To vanish.
- To make vanish; especially, to abduct and murder surreptitiously for political reasons.
- To go away; to become lost.