The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word ALEWIFE
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More clues leading to the result ALEWIFE
- ... fish with beer on it is initially extremely flavoursome
- Fish‘s bitter partner
- Fish with beer for old woman
- Fish and beer with married woman
- Fish and beer with girl who’s married
- Fish provided in a lukewarm starter in eatery
- Woman overcome by drink — a ‘fish’
- In a sheltered place, a group of females gets fine fish
- A woman I feel may be a local female
- Beer-toting spouse gets fish
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The straight part
We know that "fish" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case fish = alewife.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does ALEWIFE mean?
ALEWIFE noun- A woman who keeps an alehouse.
- A migrating North American fish, Alosa pseudoharengus.
- Any of several species similar in appearance.