The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word LACTATE
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More clues leading to the result LACTATE
- What mums do in the evening, bored by routine
- Most new mums do it, tardily pocketing bill
- Briefly want sugar magnate to produce food for young
- What mums do at night, bored by routine
- Former nurses work to provide food for children
- Prepare to feed a baby wholesome food, the delicate thing eating rubbish
- Slow to embrace enterprise to make milk
- Let a cat out and provide milk
- Produce milk for baby: feat feeding past midnight?
- Produce milk with hybrid American cattle
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The straight part
We know that "produce food for young" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case produce food for young = lactate.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does LACTATE mean?
LACTATE verb- To secrete or produce milk
- Any salt or ester of lactic acid
- Ellipsis of lactate ion