The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word IDENTICAL
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More clues leading to the result IDENTICAL
- Jerk hugged by Daniel, shivering just the same
- Self-same dialect in new form
- The same may be represented in dialect
- Like Dead Ringers broadcast in dialect
- The writer would clean it out just the same
- It is back in Iceland, unexpectedly — the very same
- Indistinguishable dialect in broadcast
- Papers can’t lie? Wrong, just the same
- Description of certain pod members rendered in dialect
- In dialect translation is the same
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The straight part
We know that "The same" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case the same = identical.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does IDENTICAL mean?
IDENTICAL noun- (usually pluralized) Something which has exactly the same properties as something else.
- An identical twin.
- Bearing full likeness by having precisely the same set of characteristics; indistinguishable.
- Not different or other; not another or others; not different as regards self; selfsame; numerically identical.
- Of twins, sharing the same genetic code.
- Exactly equivalent.
- Approximating or approaching exact equivalence.