The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word TURNING
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result TURNING
- Rotation is good after shock at home
- Changing allegiance of codebreaker without name
- Deviation of indeterminate number grasped by mathematician
- Sailors not out in boat should be going off
- Space for a 180 — or roundabout?
- Shaping metal around vase with top of gold
- Revolutionary movement adjusting without monarch
- Where road branches off north in Italian city by front of garage
- Retire and start to get going?
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The straight part
We know that "going off" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case going off = turning.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 TURNING mean?
TURNING verb- (heading) to make a non-linear physical movement.
- (heading) To change condition or attitude.
- To change one's course of action; to take a new approach.
- (usually with over) To complete.
- To make (money); turn a profit.
- Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
- To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.
- To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
- To invert a type of the same thickness, as a temporary substitute for any sort which is exhausted.
- To translate.
- To magically or divinely attack undead.
- A turn or deviation from a straight course.
- At hockey, a foul committed by a player attempting to hit the ball who interposes their body between the ball and an opposing player trying to do the same.
- The shaping of wood or metal on a lathe.
- The act of turning.
- Shavings produced by turning something on a lathe.