The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word REEDY
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result REEDY
- Too keen to eat something not good, like grass
- Like Bunter losing head, becoming weak and thin?
- Tall and thin? Wanting lots of food's not good
- Gourmand leaving starter to get thin
- Eyes bigger than stomach, missing starter to get thin
- Mike abandons correct piping
- Piping like a pig with no head?
- Like some of the wind cure Mike ignored
- Very eager to lose gram to get thin
- Thin and weak, wanting lots of food but no starter
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What does REEDY mean?
REEDY adjective- Full of, or edged with, reeds.
- (of a sound or voice) High and thin in tone.
- (of a person) Tall and thin.
- Imperfectly welded together in masses of rods.