The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word TORTILLA
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More clues leading to the result TORTILLA
- In which one may see salsa or tango with a lilt playing outside
- Omelette’s wrong — one sent back everything
- Go quickly up, sick over a Spanish omelette
- Peak time badly needs a flat fare
- Manuel’s dish? Everyone has it with tripe that’s passed round
- Wrong answer to eat unhealthy pancake
- Lot involved in new trial of pancake
- Trot about visiting sick with a savoury pancake
- Sick over American after wrong kind of pancake
- Mexican food producing injury, adult taking sick
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The straight part
We know that "Manuel’s dish" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case manuel’s dish = tortilla.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does TORTILLA mean?
TORTILLA noun- (Mexican cuisine) A flat round bread made out of cornmeal or flour. In Mexican cuisine they are often served with a filling or topping such as frijoles "beans", carne "meat", salsa "sauce", sour cream and cheese; in the latter case they are called quesadillas.
- (Spanish cuisine) Spanish omelette; an omelette containing potatoes and onions.