The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 10 letter word CANNELLONI
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More clues leading to the result CANNELLONI
- Girl visiting priest, one providing Italian food
- Girl on island with container for pasta
- Staff, embracing new lines, love return of popular pasta dish
- Clergyman, one accepting King’s mistress as an exotic dish
- Endless recorded lines about Italy producing pasta
- All Connie can cook without nuts at first: pasta
- Woman in confined place regarding lunchtime food
- Brusque Scottish bank manager’s verbal refusal to fund the purchase of Italian food?
- Pasta girl brought into small room exactly at one
- Big gun welcomes the Spanish student with starter of Italian pasta
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The straight part
We know that "an exotic dish" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case an exotic dish = cannelloni.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 CANNELLONI mean?
CANNELLONI noun- Wide tubes of pasta filled with a savoury stuffing and baked in the oven.