The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word CITRON
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More clues leading to the result CITRON
- Fruit and wine consumed by two-thirds of withered old women
- Fruit ice with wrong coatings removed
- Companion not entirely accepting it’s a fruit
- Ancient fruit-tree: it gets a bit of research in study
- Car lacks energy? It may give one a bitter experience
- Initially, cultivation time’s cut to press fruit
- Manor tickets, upon recollection, yielded fruit
- Fruit — old chum almost swallows it
- Plant product gets eccentric trio imprisoned by China
- Fruit aid becomes indicator
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The straight part
We know that "Ancient fruit-tree" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case ancient fruit-tree = citron.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does CITRON mean?
CITRON noun- A greenish yellow colour.
- A small citrus tree, Citrus medica.
- The fruit of a citron tree.
- The candied rind of the citron fruit.
- Of a greenish yellow colour.