The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 plus 4 letter word NANNY GOAT
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More clues leading to the result NANNY GOAT
- Got any bananas to go with bread and butter?
- Over-protective, vigorously criticise butter
- Spoil piece about old Billy's mate
- Governess has shot at making butter, possibly
- Billy's mate, the one looking after the kids?
- The desire of Billy No-Mates?
- . Good old Grandma’s first with a top tip for mother of kids
- Billy’s mum tango dancing round an empty nunnery
- Childcare provider learnt to accept charge’s third animal
- . Child-minder to attack farm animal
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The straight part
We know that "butter" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case butter = nanny goat.The cryptic/wordplay part
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Crossword Answer definitions
NANNY GOAT noun- A female goat.