The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word CHEDDAR
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result CHEDDAR
- Church man has change of heart: that's hard cheese!
- Male theologian trapped in vehicle? Hard cheese!
- Short swirl in cleaner dairy produce
- Caught editor tucking into awfully hard cheese
- Theologian enthralled by church organ in Somerset village
- Dramatic heroine in outskirts of Colmar
- Edward Woodward ultimately tucked into fish and cheese
- Gorge on cheese
- Dread changing after church to get something to eat
- Dad unwisely invested in expensive foreign food
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What does CHEDDAR mean?
CHEDDAR noun- A cheese styled after the Cheddar cheese made in Cheddar.
- Money, cash, currency.
- (cheese making) To cut and press cheese so as to remove the whey and leave drier curds.