The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word OYSTERS
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More clues leading to the result OYSTERS
- Removing the head destroys fresh seafood
- Roaming seashore on vacation, so try seafood
- Aphrodisiac fare of novel sort? Yes
- Soy sprinkled on short tailless shellfish
- Every other Tory is at new restaurant’s opening, having southern shellfish
- 9, perhaps, fancy sort? Yes!
- Shellfish? Yes, sort at sea
- Seafood’s unusual story absorbs egghead at one point
- Yes, sort out seafood
- Poultry parts unknown in odd stores
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The straight part
We know that "shellfish" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case shellfish = oysters.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does OYSTERS mean?
OYSTERS noun- Any of certain marine bivalve mollusks, especially those of the family Ostreidae (the true oysters), usually found adhering to rocks or other fixed objects in shallow water along the seacoasts, or in brackish water in the mouth of rivers.
- The delicate morsel of dark meat contained in a small cavity of the bone on each side of the lower part of the back of a fowl.
- A pale beige color tinted with grey or pink, like that of an oyster.
- (by analogy) A person who keeps secrets.
- A shoplifter.