The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 letter word RYE
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More clues leading to the result RYE
- Grain in granary, evidently!
- Old port or whisky
- You once got attached to right sort of whisky
- Whisky distillery emptied bottles
- Drink making you sardonic in speech?
- Cereal in barley recently sent up
- Port or bitter picked up?
- Grass over lovely Cambridge Backs
- Twisted-sounding grass …
- Cinque Port in Dover? Yes!
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What does RYE mean?
RYE noun- A grain used extensively in Europe for making bread, beer, and (now generally) for animal fodder.
- The grass Secale cereale from which the grain is obtained.
- Rye bread.
- Rye whiskey.
- Caraway (from the mistaken assumption that the whole seeds, often used to season rye bread, are the rye itself)
- Ryegrass, any of the species of Lolium.
- A disease of hawks.