The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word TOLERANCE
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More clues leading to the result TOLERANCE
- Play sadly no Electra
- Give encouraging cry during ecstasy
- Ability to digest cereal
- Open-mindedness of revolutionary band getting into ecstasy?
- Clear note written out with margin
- Putting up with joyous cry of Iberian being hypnotised?
- Not elected, Clinton era over – ultimately, grace is not Trump’s forte
- Understanding flaw, not hard in hypnotic state
- Play patience
- Expression of approval in ecstatic state for permissiveness
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The straight part
We know that "Play" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case play = tolerance.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does TOLERANCE mean?
TOLERANCE noun- The ability to endure pain or hardship; endurance.
- The ability or practice of tolerating; an acceptance of or patience with the beliefs, opinions or practices of others; a lack of bigotry.
- The ability of the body (or other organism) to resist the action of a poison, to cope with a dangerous drug or to survive infection by an organism.
- The variation or deviation from a standard, especially the maximum permitted variation in an engineering measurement.
- The ability of the body to accept a tissue graft without rejection.