The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 plus 6 letter word MANDARIN ORANGE
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More clues leading to the result MANDARIN ORANGE
- Official sort of order for fruit
- Romanian garden yielding fruit
- Citrus fruit supplied by chap, bold European, around North African port
- Fellow brave when consuming port and Eastern fruit
- Bureaucrat, and row about round fruit!
- Person ordering an assortment scoffs a fruit
- Bureaucrat on line about round fruit
- Official colour of fruit
- Spread margarine on, and fruit
- Fruit found by Chinese round stove
Buddy explains!
The straight part
We know that "fruit" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case fruit = mandarin orange.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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