The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 letter word NUT
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More clues leading to the result NUT
- Devotee regularly in cult
- Butt or cask upended
- Upturn beer cask to find a little food
- Fastener, one with screw loose?
- Barrel brought back for screwball
- Obsessive person in teachers’ union
- Head for Brazil, perhaps
- Crazy person that may be going to bolt
- Eccentric old king losing head
- Hard fruit — one's cracked!
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The straight part
We know that "Hard fruit/one's cracked" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case hard fruit/one's cracked = nut.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does NUT mean?
NUT noun- A hard-shelled seed.
- A piece of metal, usually square or hexagonal in shape, with a hole through it having machined internal threads, intended to be screwed onto a bolt or other threaded shaft.
- A crazy person.
- The head.
- Monthly expense to keep a venture running.
- The amount of money necessary to set up some venture; set-up costs.
- A stash of money owned by an extremely rich investor, sufficient to sustain a high level of consumption if all other money is lost.
- On stringed instruments such as guitars and violins, the small piece at the peghead end of the fingerboard that holds the strings at the proper spacing and, in most cases, the proper height.
- En, a unit of measurement equal to half of the height of the type in use.
- An extravagantly fashionable young man.
- (chiefly plural) A testicle.
- Semen, ejaculate.
- Orgasm, ejaculation; especially release of semen
- An extreme enthusiast.
- A shaped piece of metal, threaded by a wire loop, which is jammed in a crack in the rockface and used to protect a climb. (Originally, machine nuts [sense #2] were used for this purpose.)
- (only in attributive use) The best possible hand of a certain type, for instance: "nut straight", "nut flush", and "nut full house". Compare nuts.
- The tumbler of a gunlock.
- A projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place.
- (mostly in the form "nutting") To gather nuts.
- To hit deliberately with the head; to headbutt.
- (mildly) To orgasm; to ejaculate.
- No.