The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word PALATE
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result PALATE
- 23 dined, revealing sense of taste
- Friend took food for sense of taste
- Relish pop of recent times
- Sense of taste Dad taking longer than expected to reveal
- Dined by friend showing taste
- Taste last bit of tuna in dish
- Sense of taste? Mate scoffed
- Taste dish containing innards of ram
- Old man slow to develop taste
- Old man slow to develop sense of taste
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The straight part
We know that "taste" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case taste = palate.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 PALATE mean?
PALATE noun- The roof of the mouth; the uraniscus.
- The sense of taste.
- Relish; taste; liking (from the mistaken notion that the palate is the organ of taste)
- Mental relish; intellectual taste.
- A projection in the throat of such flowers as the snapdragon.
- To relish; to find palatable.