The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word MINCEMEAT
I've seen this crossword clue in The Guardian
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More clues leading to the result MINCEMEAT
- Move daintily, satisfied about a food mixture
- Cut up heart that fills pastry
- Pie filling scruffy team after getting the chop?
- One way to get team something in a pie
- Filling that’s nice – mm! – in pie snack?
- Make team, perhaps, a pie filling
- How to supply team with fruity mix of tarts for winter season?
- Finely chop heart for pie filling
- Name item in pie around Christmas primarily
- If you do this you could get team a sweet or savoury mass
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The straight part
We know that "a pie filling" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case a pie filling = mincemeat.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 MINCEMEAT mean?
MINCEMEAT noun- A mixture of fruit, spices and sugar used as a filling for mince pies.
- Minced meat, mince.
- (by analogy) A badly cut-up body or parts of a body.
- (by extension) Something or someone utterly destroyed.