The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word FLOUR
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More clues leading to the result FLOUR
- Meal served by a number
- Number consuming large meal
- Two couples eating large meal
- A number eating large meal
- White grains, usually 50 in number
- White powder line figure secretes
- Lecturer tucked into square meal
- 0.08 cryptically? That’s fine, perhaps
- A lot of anger about left-over meal
- Meal left for two couples maybe to consume
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The straight part
We know that "meal" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case meal = flour.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 FLOUR mean?
FLOUR noun- Powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat, or other foodstuffs such as soybeans and potatoes, and used to bake bread, cakes, and pastry.
- The food made by grinding and bolting cleaned wheat (not durum or red durum) until it meets specified levels of fineness, dryness and freedom from bran and germ, also containing any of certain enzymes, ascorbic acid and certain bleaching agents.
- Powder of other material.
- To apply flour to something; to cover with flour.
- To reduce to flour.
- To break up into fine globules of mercury in the amalgamation process.
- A colorful, conspicuous structure associated with angiosperms, frequently scented and attracting various insects, and which may or may not be used for sexual reproduction.
- A reproductive structure in angiosperms (flowering plants), often conspicuously colourful and typically including sepals, petals, and either or both stamens and/or a pistil.
- A plant that bears flowers, especially a plant that is small and lacks wood.
- (usually with in) Of plants, a state of bearing blooms.
- (hypocoristic) The vulva, especially the labia majora.
- The best examples or representatives of a group.
- The best state of things; the prime.
- Flour.
- (in the plural) A substance in the form of a powder, especially when condensed from sublimation.
- A figure of speech; an ornament of style.
- Ornamental type used chiefly for borders around pages, cards, etc.
- (in the plural) Menstrual discharges.
- Something that flows, such as a river.