The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word DISTANT
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result DISTANT
- Stand it, working far away?
- Cold as princess taken with street worker
- Remote section of Kurdistan trail
- Reserved when first introduced to lawyer by conservationists
- Far from aloof
- Like Antarctica, say, cold
- Heads of Daily Telegraph maintaining weird stain’s removed
- Cool? Not even close
- Cold and remote
- Princess's act is reportedly absent
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What does DISTANT mean?
DISTANT adjective- Far off (physically, logically or mentally).
- Emotionally unresponsive or unwilling to express genuine feelings.