The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word CARAMEL
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More clues leading to the result CARAMEL
- Brown, or yellowish-brown with a red initially added in
- Chewy sweet a king fed to beast of burden
- Artillerymen transported by beast of burden? That's sweet
- Sweet area in high ground in Israel
- Sugar and whipped cream overwhelming a novice
- Sweet is almost entirely à la crème pudding
- Irish lass swallows a sweet
- Sweet desert dweller inspiring artist
- Brownish-yellow vehicle male shifted
- A sweet shade of brown
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The straight part
We know that "candy" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case candy = caramel.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 CARAMEL mean?
CARAMEL noun- A smooth, chewy, sticky confection made by heating sugar and other ingredients until the sugars polymerize and become sticky.
- A (sometimes hardened) piece of this confection.
- A yellow-brown color, like that of caramel.
- To caramelize.
- Of a yellow-brown color.