The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word PASTY
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More clues leading to the result PASTY
- Pale meat dish from Cornwall
- Unhealthily pale 5’s first signs of tanning? Yes
- Unhealthy-looking pie
- Unhealthy-looking pie
- Food item of days gone by needing a sort of fork
- Unhealthy-looking food item
- Sallow old man on street, young initially
- Pale beyond yellow
- Snack dish being washed out
- Puffy crust containing tasty filling!
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The straight part
We know that "Pale" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case pale = pasty.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does PASTY mean?
PASTY noun- (chiefly in the plural) A small item of clothing that conceals little more than the nipple of a woman's breast, primarily worn by female exotic dancers.
- Like paste, sticky.
- Pale, lacking colour, having a pallor
- White-skinned
- A type of seasoned meat and vegetable hand pie, usually of a semicircular shape.