The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 10 letter word LANCASHIRE
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More clues leading to the result LANCASHIRE
- Old Italian ready to eat a new bread for cheese
- China’s real anxious to get a piece of England
- Money collected by earl in poor county
- County road in which money is hidden by Irish
- An available sum in foreign money no use here?
- Maybe change in layout of linear county
- Course includes bread and Irish cheese
- One of the English county set confused Ian with Charles
- Charles I wandering round an English county
- County, one ready to invest in old money
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The straight part
We know that "cheese" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case cheese = lancashire.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.
Sadly, We don't have an explanation for this specific crossword clue yet.