The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word HUMBUG
I've seen this crossword clue in The Sunday Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result HUMBUG
- Sweet smell … cheese off?
- Sweet smell associated with insect
- Sweet smell attracts insect
- Spooner to cuddle vagrant? Nonsense!
- Sweet/ rhubarb
- Noise made by bee and other insect in rubbish
- Impostor? Nonsense
- What you hear from bee and insect is something sweet
- Pretence to be very active, an obsession
- Sweet deception
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The straight part
We know that "rubbish" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case rubbish = humbug.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 HUMBUG mean?
HUMBUG noun- A hoax, jest, or prank.
- A fraud or sham (countable); hypocrisy (uncountable).
- A fraudster, cheat, or hypocrite.
- Nonsense.
- A type of hard sweet (candy), usually peppermint flavoured with a striped pattern.
- Anything complicated, offensive, troublesome, unpleasant or worrying; a misunderstanding, especially if trivial.
- (African American Vernacular) A fight.
- (African American Vernacular) A gang.
- A false arrest on trumped-up charges.
- (Perhaps by extension) The piglet of the wild boar.
- To play a trick on someone, to cheat, to swindle, to deceive.
- (African American Vernacular) To fight; to act tough.
- To waste time talking.
- Balderdash!, nonsense!, rubbish!