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Douglas
as in Micheal, acts like a Neanderthal lacking direction, and was in basic instinct.
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Storm-blade wrote: acts like a Neanderthal lacking direction
No, no - that's Nicolas Cage, and he wasn't in it. Thankfully.
Mind you, "Nicolas" has seven letters ... 
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Surely the lacking direction is applicable to all actors, hence the need to have a director
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True - and Cage is not only lacking "direction", he also lacks many, many other things. Talent for example. A high velocity baseball bat between his eyes. Acting ability. That kind of thing.
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Nope 
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Caveman ?
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I wondered that, but I couldn't make it fit anything except "Neanderthal".
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I know, I think basic instinct ( as in the film ) is a red herring
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I'm pretty sure it's nothing to do with the movie (if it were, Sharon STONE would be the likely angle) but I suspect it's either:
1) A synonym of reflex with n/e/s/w removed.
2) A synonym of reflex with west removed.
3) A synonym of reflex with "ni" inserted.
For the literal, I've so far got gathers and forages for "acts like Neanderthal" but neither fit the wordplay ...
In other words: I is stuck.
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How does "lacking direction" part comes into the solution? I thought it was an exclusion/deletion indicator or anagram.
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Lacking direction is often just the removal of a compass point, so you could have something like "Winter lacking direction = winter - W(est) = inter" or "Guard lacking direction = sentry - S(outh) = entry".
Could also be a non-cardinal point like SE (South East), NE (North East) etc. or in some cases the full word (north/south/east/west).
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By that logic could it also be
In lacking direction means I, i.e. remove N(orth) from In.
This would make the puzzle: I in basic instincts acts like neanderthals.
Either add I to the synonym of instinct
OR
Neanderthals being extinct; remove I from Basic Instincts itself or a synonym?
I come up with this version simply because the first 'In' seems redundant somehow. Simply Lacking direction would've been good enough to convey the point about compass directions.
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Now the solution is in ...
I had thought of CAVEMAN as well, and the best I could come up with was Basic Instinct = CRAVE, Direction = R for right, so Basic Instinct Lacking Direction = (CRAVE - R) = CAVE. But I was stuck on how to get MAN.
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Primate? (acts like Neanderthal)
As for the solution, well I can piece most of it together but with multiple avenues.
For examples:
"i" could come from "In" with "n" (north) removed.
"Prim" comes from "Prime" with "e" (east) removed.
"ate" could be the basic instinct or eating, likewise "mate" could also come from the basic instinct of "mating".
Bottom line, I don't know what the exact solution would be, assuming the answer is even correct.
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This is what I was leading to, couldn't come up with how to make Prime or accurately PR.
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So many possibilities...
basic > primary > prime
primal as in primal instincts
Perhaps the answer is even "primals", im sure we will find out soon enough!
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Answer please
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In = HOME - lacking direction (east) = HOM
in = IN
basic instincts = ID
acts (becomes - bit superfluous that, could have left out)
like Neanderthal == HOMINID
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Tim Deveaux wrote: basic instincts = ID
Que?
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Ah, I see. Still got to say it's somewhat tenuous. Someone might have got it from "subconscious" or some reference to Freud but "basic instinct?"
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