The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word RANDOMISE
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result RANDOMISE
- Mix up compound and isomer
- Is modern dancing without a shuffle?
- Make haphazard money order that is to contain shilling
- Mix up explosive? Marines do
- Make irregular edges in rococo semi when restored
- Get wild with old Frenchman in lift
- Set irregular pattern for internal security in managed millennium building
- What one might do to a list to make it difficult to get back the original order
- Romanised version, do it any which way
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The straight part
We know that "Mix up" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case mix up = randomise.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 RANDOMISE mean?
RANDOMISE verb- To arrange randomly; to make random