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Answer for the clue "An explanation of something that is not immediately obvious ", 9 letters:
rendition

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Rendition is a 2007 abduction thriller film directed by Gavin Hood and starring Reese Witherspoon , Meryl Streep , Peter Sarsgaard , Alan Arkin , Jake Gyllenhaal and Omar Metwally . It centers on the controversial CIA practice of extraordinary rendition ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a performance of a musical composition or a dramatic role etc.; "they heard a live rendition of three pieces by Schubert" [syn: rendering ] an explanation of something that is not immediately obvious; "the edict was subject to many interpretations"; ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context now rare English) The surrender (of a city, fortress etc.). (from 17th c.) 2 (context now rare English) The hand over of a person or thing. (from 17th c.) 3 translation between languages, or between forms of a language; a translated text or ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rendition \Ren*di"tion\ (r?n-d?sh"?n), n. [LL. rendere to render: cf. L. redditio. See Render , and cf. Reddition .] The act of rendering; especially, the act of surrender, as of fugitives from justice, at the claim of a foreign government; also, surrender ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, "surrender of a place or possession," from obsolete French rendition "a rendering," noun of action from Old French rendre "to deliver, to yield" (see render (v.)). Meaning "translation" first recorded 1650s; that of "an acting, a performing" first ...

Usage examples of rendition.

A marvelous bebop medley, consisting of wonderful renditions of jazz tunes in the style of Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell, Horace Silver, and Elmo Hope.

The roar of a long-ago crowd came back, a crowd packed tightly together up there, in the bleachers, with the band in the center of things blaring away with its endless renditions of the Spartan fight song.

She was standing in front of a pointillist rendition of a human head formed by a cloud of gengineered gnats.

Chardonnay, a puckering rendition of a California varietal she probably bought by the keg.

Of course, if the story is an allegorical one, the fictional rendition of a mythical act by a mythical Jesus, the case goes out the window.

Saltzman was the first non-Italian Lo Manto had ever met, a deeply religious man who ate cottage cheese every day for lunch and laughed at his own rendition of stupid jokes.

We will not seek to disprove that there existed very early beliefs in a Jesus who was divine and who had been resurrected, but we will show that the standard interpretation of such beliefs has been erroneous, and that the Gospel rendition of such beliefs is a later development, largely if not entirely fiction.

While the world still was reeling and his hammock was swaying as if slung on board a storm-lashed ship at sea, one of the larger cannoneither the ten-pounder demiculverin or one of the three eight-pounder sakersroared close by, while the guard-bugler began to wind his horn in an off-key rendition of first the Assembly and then the Call to Arms.

But when speaking of the rendition of Handelian arias, he evidently uses the term vibrato in the same sense as Sieber does tremolando.

A fairly easy translation had produced a marvelously hierographic rendition, fascinating us.

Since 1793 the Court has frequently reiterated the early view that the federal courts organized under article III cannot render advisory opinions or that the rendition of advisory opinions is not a part of the judicial power of the United States.

I am Voltairean here, in that my sights are indeed on this life, this side of the grave, and I contend that the renditions of death and dying in literature and art are food for the living.

He imitated popular crooners and his renditions were so comical that I had ended up laughing like a child.

Q And the title Once at Antietam is intended to evoke reverberations of that dramatic moment at Aleppo seized upon by Shakespeare in his memorable poetic rendition?

After a short stroll in the park and an early movierated R for raunchy, some godawful rendition of a worse bestseller, that bound itself somehow in Dan's mind with his real-life situation, so that he kept half-expecting the crab-machine to appear on screenhe bought Wanda burgers and beer at one of the classier drive-ins, after which they moved on to what the newspapers called a swinging singles bar.