The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word CHIPPY
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result CHIPPY
- “Takeaway” Catholic, well-equipped for child-bearing?
- Californian streetwalker caught by lover of free love?
- Irritable Charlie, a drop-out
- One of two eating oysters in a fish restaurant?
- Cold rebel touchy and irritable
- Apt place for carpenter to get a meal
- Workman‘s takeaway
- Awkward battery shop?
- Woodworker’s business for COD?
- Free spirit after cannabis primarily, joints his speciality?
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The straight part
We know that "Californian streetwalker" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case californian streetwalker = chippy.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does CHIPPY mean?
CHIPPY noun- A fish-and-chip shop.
- A carpenter.
- The youngest member of a team or group, normally someone whose voice has not yet deepened, talking like a chipmunk.
- A potato chip.
- A prostitute or promiscuous woman.
- A chiptune.
- A chipping sparrow.
- To take drugs (especially heroin) on an occasional basis, rather than as an addict.
- Ill-tempered, disagreeable.
- Involving violence or unfair play.
- (of wood) Tending to form chips when cut, rather than larger, more usable pieces of wood.
- As dry as a chip of wood.
- Feeling sick from drinking alcohol; hung over.