The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word POTENTIAL
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More clues leading to the result POTENTIAL
- Promise to fix toilet pan
- Chance of success? Work up talent, I fancy
- Latin poet's broken promise
- Comrade to receive love and shelter, I promise
- Sort out toilet pan: promise?
- Modification to pit lane shows promise
- Latin poet breaking promise
- Powerful drug late in working
- Latent talent
- Likely for the egg to be placed in the deformed tin plate
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The straight part
We know that "Powerful" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case powerful = potential.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does POTENTIAL mean?
POTENTIAL noun- Currently unrealized ability (with the most common adposition being to)
- The gravitational potential: the radial (irrotational, static) component of a gravitational field, also known as the Newtonian potential or the gravitoelectric field.
- The work (energy) required to move a reference particle from a reference location to a specified location in the presence of a force field, for example to bring a unit positive electric charge from an infinite distance to a specified point against an electric field.
- (grammar) A verbal construction or form stating something is possible or probable.
- Existing in possibility, not in actuality.
- Being potent; endowed with energy adequate to a result
- A potential field is an irrotational (static) field.
- A potential flow is an irrotational flow.
- (grammar) Referring to a verbal construction of form stating something is possible or probable.