The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word MILLET
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result MILLET
- Cereal, tons on ground mostly
- … that’s bad arrested by police
- Grain, or what you may do with grain, we hear?
- Satisfied about unfortunate grain
- The grain being bad, had a meeting about it
- Grinder and Parisian grain
- Audibly grind the stuff producing grain
- Pound alien for cereal
- Grain: grind it, I say
- Recipient of corn and French grain
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The straight part
We know that "Grain" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case grain = millet.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.
What does MILLET mean?
MILLET noun- Any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food, widely cultivated in the developing world.
- A semi-autonomous confessional community under the Ottoman Empire, especially a non-Muslim one.