The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word OMELETTE
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More clues leading to the result OMELETTE
- One takes beating over races amid scuffle
- Breakfast is not a sausage, also refusing alcohol, in mess
- Husband away from family residence reportedly allowed fried food
- Smashed eggs over non-drinker in brawl
- One’s constituents beaten over race amidst scuffle
- Food put in some letterboxes?
- Tiresome letters featuring what one had for lunch?
- Ordinary writer, US one, devouring dry dish
- Limitless homes adopting East European dish
- Home let – tenant brings in 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 = omelette.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 OMELETTE mean?
OMELETTE noun- A dish made with beaten eggs cooked in a frying pan without stirring, flipped over to cook on both sides, and sometimes filled or topped with cheese, chives or other foodstuffs.
- A form of shellcode that searches the address space for multiple small blocks of data ("eggs") and recombines them into a larger block to be executed.