The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word PEPPERONI
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More clues leading to the result PEPPERONI
- Topping riddle: about the fourth from Sphinx
- Spicy food pioneer cooked, keeping very quiet
- Food and spirit for each old region of UK
- I reopen app for an update, but there’s not a sausage
- Before cooking one, go for a pizza topping
- Look to keep very soft topping with one sort of pizza
- Hot food and medical gear taken in for each working unit
- Riddle about pie filling? It’s mostly meat
- Look to keep very quietly cooking one’s pizza topping
- Sausage and ginger beer from Italy
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What does PEPPERONI mean?
PEPPERONI noun- A spicy salami-style Italian-American sausage.
- Pizza with only tomato sauce, cheese and pepperoni toppings.