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Search about to stop is creating problems (9)

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'problems' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both related to communication as well as being plural nouns.
Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?

'search about to stop is' is the wordplay.
'search' becomes 'quest' (quest is a kind of search).
'about to' becomes 'on' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'stop' means one lot of letters goes inside another (stopping can mean blocking a gap).
'on' placed inside 'is' is 'ions'.
'quest'+'ions'='QUESTIONS'

'creating' is the link.

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(Other definitions for questions that I've seen before include "posers?" , "See 8" , "Interrogates" , "pumps" .)

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