The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word COPRA
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More clues leading to the result COPRA
- Coconut oil prepared right away, primarily from this
- Company prospector’s casing a source of oil
- Company revealed jet’s source of oil
- Key work by artist that’s a bit of a nut
- Car malfunctioning? Work inside revealing source of oil
- Leading artist – Constable perhaps – gets a source of oil
- Artist sat on by policeman is a bit of a nut
- Get painter some coconut
- Desiccated coconut?
- Capture gunner’s source of oil?
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The straight part
We know that "source of oil" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case source of oil = copra.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does COPRA mean?
COPRA noun- The dried kernel of the coconut, from which coconut oil is extruded.