The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word DELICACY
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More clues leading to the result DELICACY
- Fine food, a weakness
- I’d cycle round having eaten a titbit
- Nice bit of food Cicely had cooked, not hard
- Treat with discretion
- Cycle aid cracked, displaying fragile quality
- Truffle, perhaps, from food shop, more or less cold, an unknown quantity
- Choice food‘s fragility
- Caviar, for example, Cecil Day devoured
- Trotter, perhaps, about to be put into cold culinary treat
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The straight part
We know that "Caviar, for example" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case caviar, for example = delicacy.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does DELICACY mean?
DELICACY noun- The quality of being delicate.
- Something appealing, usually a pleasing food, especially a choice dish of a certain culture suggesting rarity and refinement -a Chinese delicacy
- Fineness or elegance of construction or appearance.
- Frailty of health or fitness.
- Refinement in taste or discrimination.
- Tact and propriety; the need for such tact.