The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 plus 4 letter word CORDON BLEU
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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D
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L
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U
More clues leading to the result CORDON BLEU
- Gracious fellow beginning to buy foreign bread of a very high culinary standard
- Wow academic bishop with currency of very high distinction
- Jeremy’s left wing academic, lube applied, gets prestigious award
- My double “n” is wrong, according to top-class cook
- Cloud borne away in first-class style
- Chef’s unusual blunder – cook finally ousted
- Bend 9 round high-class cookery
- Of a very high standard, ‘boron’ clued cryptically
- Chef’s unusual blunder — cook ultimately dismissed
- High standard way to cook red bun. Cool!
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The straight part
We know that "Chef" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case chef = cordon bleu.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 CORDON BLEU mean?
CORDON BLEU noun- One of two species of passerine birds in the genus Uraeginthus.