The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 10 letter word CANTALOUPE
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More clues leading to the result CANTALOUPE
- Melon and peanut dished up with cola
- Is unable to get a glass for fruit
- Incline towards a glass for fruit
- Paul at once prepared fruit
- Elaborate lace put on a fruit
- Not a place cultivated around middle of grounds for fruit
- Melon to slice up? Act alone
- Tip: a magnifying lens for fruit
- Fruit isn’t able to split and splice, we hear
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The straight part
We know that "fruit" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case fruit = cantaloupe.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 CANTALOUPE mean?
CANTALOUPE noun- A melon of species Cucumis melo subsp. melo with sweet orange flesh, with numerous cultivars in several cultivar groups.
- An orange colour, like that of cantaloupe flesh.