The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word MUSTARD
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More clues leading to the result MUSTARD
- Relish slander involving celebrity
- Reportedly collected condiment
- Hot stuff assembled for the audience?
- So keen a Colonel?
- Dirt involving top player? Hot stuff!
- It’s thought of as keen to involve celebrity in slanderous attacks
- Dirt about celebrity — some hot stuff
- Hot stuff gathered for inspection, do we hear?
- Celeb overwhelmed by damaging allegations is hot stuff
- Yellow sun eclipsed by earth
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The straight part
We know that "some hot stuff" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case some hot stuff = mustard.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does MUSTARD mean?
MUSTARD noun- A plant of certain species of the genus Brassica, or of related genera (especially Sinapis alba, in the family Brassicaceae, with yellow flowers, and linear seed pods).
- Powder or paste made from seeds of the mustard plant, and used as a condiment or a spice.
- The leaves of the mustard plant, used as a salad.
- Dark yellow colour, the colour of mustard.
- The tomalley of a crab, which resembles the condiment.
- Of a dark yellow colour.