The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word EARDROP
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More clues leading to the result EARDROP
- A way to fill hole up in pendant
- Take papa off sugary sweet medicine
- Marshal stealing Doc Holliday's second adornment
- Active predator with no time for jewellery
- Doctor visits opera performing The Ring?
- Pendant doctor’s concealed in comic opera
- Means of reviving The Listener?
- Sweet that’s not soft initially? It hangs decoratively
- Beard rope with ends trimmed — that adds grace to the face!
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The straight part
We know that "adornment" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case adornment = eardrop.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 EARDROP mean?
EARDROP noun- Medicine to be administered to the ear.
- A pendant for the ear; an earring.
- A plant of the genus Ehrendorferia in the family Papaveraceae, native to California.