The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word FEASTS
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result FEASTS
- Goes without food in Spain? On the contrary – pigs out
- Model into safe sex, primarily out in gorges
- Starts to feed excessively and scoffs, taking seconds
- Safest going out for meals?
- Doesn’t eat going without last of fine banquets
- Big meals, fine food, with seconds devoured
- Meals for loud bridge players
- Starves consuming last of sustenance? Hardly!
- Gives up food around end of June’s religious celebrations
- Hardly starves eating last of pie!
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The straight part
We know that "banquets" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case banquets = feasts.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 FEASTS mean?
FEASTS noun- A very large meal, often of a ceremonial nature.
- Something delightful
- A festival; a holy day or holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary.
- To partake in a feast, or large meal.
- To dwell upon (something) with delight.
- To hold a feast in honor of (someone).
- To serve as a feast for; to feed sumptuously.