The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word PICKLE
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result PICKLE
- Choice the French relish
- Fix where water leaves back of instrument, did you say?
- Select the French relish
- Pluck shown by the French in a difficult situation
- Relish difficult situation
- Relish being fashion designer in large house
- Cure an awkward situation
- Choose the French item for the meal table
- Preserve is jam
- Preserve imp
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The straight part
We know that "item for the meal table" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case item for the meal table = pickle.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does PICKLE mean?
PICKLE noun- A cucumber preserved in a solution, usually a brine or a vinegar syrup.
- (often in the plural) Any vegetable preserved in vinegar and consumed as relish.
- The brine used for preserving food.
- A difficult situation; peril.
- A mildly mischievous loved one.
- A rundown.
- A children’s game with three participants that emulates a baseball rundown
- A penis.
- A pipe for smoking methamphetamine.
- A bath of dilute sulphuric or nitric acid, etc., to remove burnt sand, scale, rust, etc., from the surface of castings, or other articles of metal, or to brighten them or improve their colour.
- In an optical landing system, the hand-held controller connected to the lens, or apparatus on which the lights are mounted.
- To preserve food (or sometimes other things) in a salt, sugar or vinegar solution.
- To remove high-temperature scale and oxidation from metal with heated (often sulphuric) industrial acid.
- (in the Python programming language) To serialize.
- To pour brine over a person after flogging them, as a method of punishment.
- A kernel; a grain (of salt, sugar, etc.)
- A small or indefinite quantity or amount (of something); a little, a bit, a few. Usually in partitive construction, frequently without "of"; a single grain or kernel of wheat, barley, oats, sand or dust.
- To eat sparingly.
- To pilfer.