The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word DISH
I've seen this crossword clue in The Sunday Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result DISH
- Daughter is wanting hot food
- Show contempt for hospital food
- Ruin what one's cooking
- Course in Oxford is hard
- Plate of hot stuff?
- Flourish when bran’s left out for recipe
- Spoil attractive person
- Pungent vegetable left by artist in bowl
- Food is hot but not the whole course
- Distribute spiteful gossip in US vessel
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The straight part
We know that "Lovely/item of crockery" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case lovely/item of crockery = dish.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 DISH mean?
DISH noun- A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle.
- The contents of such a vessel.
- (metonym) A specific type of prepared food.
- (in the plural) Tableware (including cutlery, etc, as well as crockery) that is to be or is being washed after being used to prepare, serve and eat a meal.
- A type of antenna with a similar shape to a plate or bowl.
- A sexually attractive person.
- The state of being concave, like a dish, or the degree of such concavity.
- A hollow place, as in a field.
- A trough in which ore is measured.
- That portion of the produce of a mine which is paid to the land owner or proprietor.
- Gossip
- To put in a dish or dishes; serve, usually food.
- To gossip; to relay information about the personal situation of another.
- To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish.
- To frustrate; to beat; to outwit or defeat.