The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word PANCAKE
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More clues leading to the result PANCAKE
- A Tuesday's fare, not fast food by tradition
- It may help you put a good face on emergency landing
- King tucked into exotic canape and more mundane food
- It’s tossed in the air for last-gasp touchdown
- Theatrical foundation to criticise piece of soap
- A race of tossers?
- Type of make-up, one in fancy pack with lace at the end
- Flatten coat on slate
- Emergency landing for F
- Criticise bar’s collapse
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The straight part
We know that "It may help you put a good face on/emergency landing" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case it may help you put a good face on/emergency landing = pancake.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does PANCAKE mean?
PANCAKE noun- A thin batter cake fried in a pan or on a griddle in oil or butter.
- A kind of makeup, consisting of a thick layer of a compressed powder.
- A type of throw, usually with a ring where the prop is thrown in such a way that it rotates round an axis of the diameter of the prop.
- Anything very thin and flat.
- A box on which an actor stands to make them appear taller.
- To make a pancake landing.
- (demolition) To collapse one floor after another.
- To flatten violently.