The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word EUROPEANS
I've seen this crossword clue in Independent
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More clues leading to the result EUROPEANS
- Perhaps the Irish Sea, pure with no variation
- Super, A-one, amazing people from the continent
- Ethnic grouping comprising half of Greece’s constituents?
- People from a certain place exchange rupees on touring area
- Swedes perhaps cultivated from one pasture when temperature drops
- Maybe the French Open and US are to be rearranged
- Natives be our hope, can US leaders be gone?
- Trump, reopen USA for the French, perhaps
- Perhaps English are open in a way, barring upper class at central Essex
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The straight part
We know that "Perhaps the Irish" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case perhaps the irish = europeans.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.
Sadly, We don't have an explanation for this specific crossword clue yet.