The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word TOOTHSOME
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result TOOTHSOME
- Tasty offshoot in book
- Outrageously hot, so parts I think tasty
- Tasty – to an unspecified number eating hot stew
- To shoot me is wrong, but alluring
- Otto’s home cooking? Delicious!
- Tasty and cooked so hot in volume
- Book accepting nothing host cooked will be appetising
- Delicious piece of oyster awkward host brought in my direction
- Tasty, extremely considerable article almost eaten
- To cook some hot sweet
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The straight part
We know that "tasty" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case tasty = toothsome.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does TOOTHSOME mean?
TOOTHSOME adjective- Delicious.
- Sexually attractive.
- Having a pleasing texture when bitten.
- Showing lots of teeth, toothy.