The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word COCONUT
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result COCONUT
- Oil producer's beer cask knocked over by clown
- 0001000 teachers might be kind of shy
- Tree enthusiast chasing firms
- Clown organised teachers — fair target?
- Count change on firm palm
- Fair target for shy person
- Clown — crazy person, a fair attraction?
- Senior officers facing fanatic — hairy hard case, soft inside
- Fruit firms needing head
- Company working to split proportion of profit — that’s hairy and tough!
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The straight part
We know that "Fair target for shy person" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case fair target for shy person = coconut.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does COCONUT mean?
COCONUT noun- A fruit of the coconut palm (not a true nut), Cocos nucifera, having a fibrous husk surrounding a large seed.
- A hard-shelled seed of this fruit, having white flesh and a fluid-filled central cavity.
- The edible white flesh of this fruit.
- The coconut palm.
- A Hispanic or dark-skinned person who acts “white” (Caucasian), alluding to the fact that a coconut is brown on the outside and white on the inside.
- A black person who thinks or acts "white" (European).
- A Pacific islander.
- A female breast.
- The human head (often used in cricket broadcasts when a ball hits or nearly hits a batsman on the head).