Cryptic crossword clue
Very short time needed to get dry 3

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 letter word SEC

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The straight part
We know that "dry" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case dry = sec.
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What does SEC mean?

SEC noun
  1. Second, 1/60 of a minute.
SEC noun
  1. One-sixtieth of a minute; the SI unit of time, defined as the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of radiation corresponding to the transition between two hyperfine levels of caesium-133 in a ground state at a temperature of absolute zero and at rest.
  2. A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a minute of arc or one part in 3600 of a degree.
  3. A short, indeterminate amount of time.

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