Cryptic crossword clue
Business with black swan 3

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 letter word COB

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The straight part

We know that "swan" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case swan = cob.

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What does COB mean?

1. A male swan.
2. A corncob.
3. A round, often crusty roll or loaf of bread.
4. A building material consisting of clay, sand, straw, water, and earth, similar to adobe; also called cobb, rammed earth or pisé.
5. A horse having a stout body and short legs.
6. A gull, especially the black-backed gull (Larus marinus); also spelled cobb.
7. Any of the gold and silver coins that were minted in the Spanish Empire and valued in reales or escudos, such as the piece of eight—especially those which were crudely struck and irregularly shaped.
8. A Spanish coin formerly current in Ireland, worth about four shillings and sixpence.
9. One who is eminent, great, large, or rich.
10. A spider.
11. A small fish, the miller's thumb.
12. A large fish, especially the kabeljou (variant spelling of kob).
13. The head of a herring.
14. The top or head of anything.
15. A lump or piece of anything, usually of a somewhat large size, as of coal, or stone.
16. A punishment consisting of blows inflicted on the buttocks with a strap or a flat piece of wood.
17. A cylinder with pins in it, encoding music to be played back mechanically by a barrel organ.
18. A person of mixed black and white ancestry, especially a griffe; a mulatto.

1. To construct using mud blocks or to seal a wall using mud or an artificial equivalent.
2. Of growing corn, to have the heads mature into corncobs.

1. The nut of the common hazel (Corylus avellana); hazelnut.
2. A specific cultivated variety of hazelnut, also known as the Kentish cobnut.
3. A game played by children with nuts.

1. To beat with a flat instrument; to paddle.
2. (Northern UK, possibly colloquial) To throw, chuck, lob.
3. To chip off unwanted pieces of stone, so as to form a desired shape or improve the quality of mineral ore.

1. Initialism of contingency operating base.
2. Acronym of chief of boat.
3. Close of Business, usually referring to a deadline for an office in another time zone.
4. Coordination of Benefits
5. Chairman of the Board
6. Chip on Board

1. A cobblestone.
2. A particle from 64 to 256 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.

1. Small flat-bottomed fishing boat suitable for launching from a beach, found on the north-east coast of England and in Scotland.

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