The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 plus 5 letter word PEACH MELBA
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result PEACH MELBA
- Dish that’s cheap, crude: a kind of toast
- PM devouring every island’s dessert
- Cheap meal prepared to include starter of broth and dessert
- During personal appearance, every Spice Girl is sweet
- Statesman embraces one and all on the island? That’s sweet! [two words]
- Pal became excited about hot dessert
- Turning fit on Earl Grey, for example, bypassing every dessert
- Dessert spilt: blame following beauty
- Spice among five in vegetable tea is sweet
- Blame cheap production for pudding of a soprano
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The straight part
We know that "sweet" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case sweet = peach melba.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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