The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word SAGO
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More clues leading to the result SAGO
- Pudding ingredient originally steamed in the past
- Palm hence to cross with silver? The reverse!
- Milk pudding son wants earlier
- Sweet pudding gone after seconds
- Base of puddings in the past?
- Drop round for pudding
- Soon has a turn making pudding
- Sink getting old food
- Drop round for sweet food
- Cereal-producing palm, small in the past
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The straight part
We know that "Cereal-producing palm," is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case cereal-producing palm, = sago.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 SAGO mean?
SAGO noun- A powdered starch obtained from certain palms used as a food thickener.
- A similar starch obtained from a palm-like cycad, Cycas revoluta
- Any of the palms from which sago is extracted.