The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word OATMEAL
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More clues leading to the result OATMEAL
- Oscar sitting down to eat cereal
- Nothing on the table? I'll make porridge!
- Odd bits of opal and blue interrupted by marks in pale brown
- Round tamale that’s mixed up milled grain
- Porridge ingredient originally offered at breakfast, perhaps
- Porridge-maker round at breakfast?
- Powdered grain, egg and meat cooking inside of hall
- Some dreamboat, me – a likely porridge in the making!
- Oscar presumably eating cereal
- Leading part in Porridge?
Buddy explains!
The straight part
We know that "pale brown" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case pale brown = oatmeal.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 OATMEAL mean?
OATMEAL noun- Meal made from rolled or round oats.
- A breakfast cereal made from rolled oats, cooked in milk and/or water.
- A light greyish brown colour, like that of oatmeal.
- Of a light greyish brown colour, like that of oatmeal