The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word APRICOT
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result APRICOT
- A jar full of mostly mellow fruit
- Jam producer needing place to sleep on All Fools’ Day?
- A vessel containing mostly lush fruit
- Cooked most tropical fruit
- Cooking nearly all tropical fruit
- 7 nabbing Spanish boy’s fruit
- Fruit, mostly tropical, canned
- Fruit is mostly loaded with nothing inside ready
- Fruit bed after month not quite finished
- A jar containing mostly mellow fruit
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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 = apricot.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 APRICOT mean?
APRICOT noun- A round sweet and juicy stone fruit, resembling peach or plum in taste, with a yellow-orange flesh, lightly fuzzy skin and a large seed inside.
- The apricot tree, Prunus armeniaca
- A pale yellow-orange colour, like that of an apricot fruit.
- A dog with an orange-coloured coat.
- The junction of the brain and brain stem on a target, used as an aiming point to ensure a one-shot kill.
- (usually in the plural) A testicle.
- Of a pale yellowish-orange colour, like that of an apricot.