The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word STRAW
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More clues leading to the result STRAW
- A feature on Cromwell rejected as corny stuff
- Sucker with no science subjects upset
- Criminal coward rues lot, being yellow as old grass
- Unsightly growths set back remains of crop
- Means to absorb paintings etc back in Cornwall area
- Fast-food freebie recalled, growths found on skin
- Thatcher is closely associated with this former Cabinet minister
- Way to get untreated stable bed?
- Yellowish-brown lumps rejected
- Recall lumps in trifle
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The straight part
We know that "yellow as old grass" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case yellow as old grass = straw.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does STRAW mean?
STRAW noun- A dried stalk of a cereal plant.
- Such dried stalks considered collectively.
- A drinking straw.
- A pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
- Anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing.
- To lay straw around plants to protect them from frost.
- To sell straws on the streets in order to cover the giving to the purchaser of things usually banned, such as pornography.
- Made of straw.
- Of a pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
- Imaginary, but presented as real.