The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word STRUDEL
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More clues leading to the result STRUDEL
- Rolled pastry, extremely short, ruled revolting
- Good man with rustic source of lemon dessert
- Pastry with extremely sweet, coarse caramel base
- Sweet, sweet skirts, commonly cut
- Stan, not half discourteous, left dessert
- … Stan, not half discourteous, left dessert
- German result – flaky pastry
- Good person left to eat hearty dessert
- Way to get a gross litre of pastry
- Pastry one very good, coarse and large
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The straight part
We know that "dessert" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case dessert = strudel.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 STRUDEL mean?
STRUDEL noun- The symbol @, most commonly used in e-mail addresses.
- A pastry made from multiple thin layers of dough rolled up and filled with fruit, etc.
- A vertical hole in sea ice through which downward jet-like, buoyancy-driven drainage of flood water is thought to occur.