The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word PAPAYA
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result PAPAYA
- Fruit for dad mid-voyage
- Old man to settle on a tree
- Father having to cough up a tropical fruit
- Fruit indeed collected by father
- Tropical fruit always eaten by dad
- Fruit brought by daddy always getting eaten
- Old man gets you to say name of fruit
- Old man takes assistant often back for fruit
- Oscar’s successor holding a yen for fruit
- Daddy and mommy finally having a fruit
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The straight part
We know that "tropical fruit" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case tropical fruit = papaya.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 PAPAYA mean?
PAPAYA noun- A tropical American evergreen tree, Carica papaya, having large, yellow, edible fruit
- The fruit of this tree.
- An orange colour, like that of papaya flesh.