The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word YIDDISH
I've seen this crossword clue in The Times
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More clues leading to the result YIDDISH
- Withdrawn do-it-yourself recipe for tongue
- Language papers and course taken by day's end
- German's relative has handy habit around food
- Language for doing at home perhaps coming up on satellite receiver
- Work in the home, coming up with meal: some tongue
- Language of heart-throb after rise of homework
- Tongue brought back to prepare oneself with meal
- Language homework written up before meal
- Amateur handiwork overturned something attractive leading to language
- Homework over some food: tongue
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The straight part
We know that "German's relative" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case german's relative = yiddish.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.
Sadly, We don't have an explanation for this specific crossword clue yet.