The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word BARBECUES
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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What does BARBECUES mean?
BARBECUES noun- A fireplace or pit for grilling food, typically used outdoors and traditionally employing hot charcoal as the heating medium.
- A meal or event highlighted by food cooked in such an apparatus.
- Meat, especially pork or beef, which has been cooked in such an apparatus (i.e. smoked over indirect heat from high-smoke fuels) and then chopped up or shredded.
- A hog, ox, or other large animal roasted or broiled whole for a feast.
- A floor on which coffee beans are sun-dried.
- A framework of sticks.
- To cook food on a barbecue; to smoke it over indirect heat from high-smoke fuels.
- To grill.