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Answer for the clue "Closest possible finish ", 9 letters:
dead heat

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Dead Heat is a novel by Del Stone, Jr. . It was published in 1996 by Mojo Press , with illustrations by Dave Dorman and Scott Hampton . It is based on and contains portions from Stone's previous works in Roadkill (Caliber Comics, 1993) and December (Hero ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context idiomatic English) a close race or contest in which no winner is apparent

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a tie in a race

Usage examples of dead heat.

We have reason to believe they were running close to a dead heat with GeneCorp, so we can recoup our earlier failure.

The men instantly mounted the women and for three hours kept them working in a dead heat.

So if these guys didn't find somewhere else to go in the next eight minutes, it was going to be a dead heat (terrible choice of words there) as to whether I died of suffocation or boiled in my own sweat.

Moreta could see the starting poles forlornly tumbled about where the spectacular dead heat of the last race had been run.