The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word CHARLOTTE
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More clues leading to the result CHARLOTTE
- Hot claret poured around pudding
- A pudding for Miss Bronte?
- Girl‘s daily gamble, missing railway
- . Mixing hot treacle endlessly makes pudding
- A sweet girl
- Chortle at funny little princess
- She’s a tart
- Queen of puddings?
- One sort of tart or another, and the rest doing a turn outside
- Cleaner loads the empty dessert dish
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The straight part
We know that "pudding" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case pudding = charlotte.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 CHARLOTTE mean?
CHARLOTTE noun- A dessert consisting of sponge cake filled with fruit, and cream or custard.