The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word FLAVOUR
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More clues leading to the result FLAVOUR
- Taste pizza ingredient eating a starter in Venice
- Character left in support
- Prefer to include tip of liquorice, for taste
- Having swilled drop of Lambrusco, go for taste
- Suggestion: somewhere to go in all seasons
- Prefer to accommodate Liberal character
- Character left wearing support
- Characteristic quality of learner in act of kindness
- Hint there may be a number in favour
- Taste fifty fancy sandwiches
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The straight part
We know that "Character" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case character = flavour.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 FLAVOUR mean?
FLAVOUR noun- The quality produced by the sensation of taste or, especially, of taste and smell in combined effect.
- A substance used to produce a taste. Flavoring.
- A variety (of taste) attributed to an object.
- The characteristic quality of something.
- A kind or type.
- One of the six types of quarks (top, bottom, strange, charmed, up, and down) or three types of leptons (electron, muon, and tauon).
- The quality produced by the sensation of smell; odour; fragrance.
- To add flavoring to something.