The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word NAAN
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More clues leading to the result NAAN
- Bread articles placed end to end
- Curry accompaniment, whichever way you look at it!
- It’s bread whichever way you look at it
- Article about a new type of bread
- Native American mostly cut out foreign food
- Granny’s snaffling first bit of peasants’ bread
- Bread supplied by emergency organisation in the middle of dinner
- Grandma eats a sort of bread
- News about motoring organisation that barely gets raised
- Peeled banana used to make bread
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The straight part
We know that "type of bread" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case type of bread = naan.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does NAAN mean?
NAAN noun- A type of round, flat bread baked in a tandoor popular in South and Central Asian cuisine.