The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 plus 5 letter word MINUTE STEAK
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result MINUTE STEAK
- Little wooden skewer reportedly for meat dish
- Fast food item: very small and pale, we hear
- Slight cut: little pale, did you say?
- Records timber that may be rare
- Meat that can be cooked quickly – is it nouvelle cuisine?
- Little and pale, say, dish of meat
- Small cut in fast food
- Record Kate prepared for fast food
- Meat quickly cooked — but not necessarily quickly eaten!
- Meat dish: 11 across portion, by the sound of it?
Buddy explains!
The straight part
We know that "Meat dish" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case meat dish = minute steak.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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