The phrase "a straightforward answer to" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are seeking a clear and direct response to a question or issue.
Example: "I appreciate your insights, but what I really need is a straightforward answer to my question about the budget."
Alternatives: "a clear response to" or "a direct answer to".
There is a straightforward answer to that.
There isn't a straightforward answer to that question.
Obviously, a myth such as this one functions as an explanation, but the narrative form distinguishes it from a straightforward answer to an intellectual question about causes.
There was much talk about leaving future generations with an intolerable debt burden, with the political subtext being that a man who could not give a straightforward answer to simple questions could not be trusted with the nation's money.
Indeed, at least one computer scientist has a straightforward answer to the problem: "Competent grammar checking would be great in principle," said Peter Neumann, a scientist at SRI International and an amateur grammarian.
"Why shouldn't a community be able to say, 'We will work with another provider or work ourselves to be able to provide better infrastructure'?" There is a straightforward answer to this question: according to federal law, states generally have the authority to write laws governing what their cities can or can't do.
Mr. Heenan, one of the candidates in the race, soon released an essay apologizing for not giving "a more straightforward answer" to a grandmother who had asked him how he would help prevent gun violence.
I have a rather straightforward answer to Mr. Brooks's question: Mr. Obama is close because the recession, and its dramatic economic shock waves, were not a result of his policies; rather than ruling from the left, he has ruled from the pragmatic center.
Why is it, such intentionalists ask, that we are not rendered bias in favor of the belief that p in many cases where we have a very strong desire that p (or anxiety or some other motivation related to p)? Intentionalists argue that an intention to get oneself to acquire the belief that p offers a relatively straightforward answer to this question.
But Swan had a more straightforward answer to this question.
But Teal had a more straightforward answer to this question.
