The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word EXTRACTOR
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result EXTRACTOR
- Remover of spear carrier, short performer on stage?
- Fan of old farm equipment
- Fan, perhaps, of decommissioned vehicle?
- Another to court men one takes out
- Fan of overlapping Thespians
- Additional cast member losing a fan?
- Old farm vehicle & exhaust fan
- Fan‘s short run to player
- Fan heading for trouble runs into old player
- Person in crowd scene merges with performer being a fan
Buddy explains!
The straight part
We know that "a fan" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case a fan = extractor.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 EXTRACTOR mean?
EXTRACTOR noun- Any of various mechanical devices that extract a component from others.
- An apparatus that uses a solvent to remove soluble substances from a mixture.
- A centrifugal drying machine.
- (in a gun) A part of the bolt that removes a cartridge from the chamber.
- A particular kind of bipartite graph.
- A function which, being applied to output from a weakly random entropy source, together with a short, uniformly random seed, generates a highly random output that appears independent from the source and uniformly distributed.