The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word BECHAMEL
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More clues leading to the result BECHAMEL
- Busy worker eating cold meat left sauce
- Sauce got hot inside close to grill
- Sauce celeb cooked with meat in
- Happen upon ruminant consuming hot sauce
- Persist with ruminant drinking hot sauce
- Drunken celeb about to act badly — sauce!
- Sauce celeb is cooking with ham in
- Live animal fed hot sauce
- Sauce comprising cooked lamb and cheese, mostly
- Football star, disheartened by the Spanish item in trattoria?
Buddy explains!

The straight part
We know that "sauce" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case sauce = bechamel.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 BECHAMEL mean?
BECHAMEL noun- A simple white sauce made from a roux of butter and flour to which is added hot milk.