The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word SPAGHETTI
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result SPAGHETTI
- Get this in order to collect dad's food
- One can wind up eating this
- Translation of this page involves conclusion of plot with many strands
- Cooked patties to eat good, hot pasta
- What one may wind up eating?
- Food of poor quarter in land round Madrid neither finished
- Resort where billionaire’s called for something Italian
- Get this cooked before old man comes in for food
- Touring Panama, cooks get this food
- What spaces left I filled with dry food
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The straight part
We know that "food" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case food = spaghetti.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 SPAGHETTI mean?
SPAGHETTI noun- A type of pasta made in the shape of long thin strings.
- A dish that has spaghetti as a main part of it, such as spaghetti bolognese.
- Any type of pasta.
- Electrical insulating tubing.
- Anything tangled or confusing.
- A spaghetti western.
- Spaghetti code.
- To become, or appear to become longer and thinner.
- To stretch to become longer and thinner.