The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word NEURAL
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More clues leading to the result NEURAL
- Newcastle area of the country? Not right at first to be nervy
- Impartial, with no time for dealing with nerves
- Unreal shot of the nervous system
- Heartlessly disinterested in condition of nerves
- One losing head by Russian river? It’s to do with nerves
- Nervous, but nice on either side of mountain range
- Strange, unreal network type
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The straight part
We know that "nervy" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case nervy = neural.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does NEURAL mean?
NEURAL adjective- Of, or relating to the nerves, neurons or the nervous system.
- Modelled on the arrangement of neurons in the brain.