The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word MEANTIME
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More clues leading to the result MEANTIME
- Lowly enemy in a period between actions?
- Myself against myself? For the moment
- Against cutting identical notes for the present
- One laid into sloppy team men in the interval
- Ungenerous period for an interval
- The average age in the interim
- Neat changes in wordless performance one should see in the intervening period
- Ungenerous period for interval
- Austerity, possibly — for now
- Interval between neat changes in play without words
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The straight part
We know that "in the interim" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case in the interim = meantime.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 MEANTIME mean?
MEANTIME noun- The time spent waiting for another event; time in between.
- During the interval; meanwhile