The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word GAZPACHO
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More clues leading to the result GAZPACHO
- Pause and almost sneeze eating unknown soup?
- Gary, chap cooking old Spanish dish
- After short look old chap ordered soup
- Soup in Gaza, and chop in a stew
- Maybe Pedro prepared this street map chap’s unfolding during journey
- The old man in Arizona church, brought in to work for soup
- Look briefly at a chop that’s cooked — and soup
- There’s a shortage in food under poor leader in Middle Eastern city — soup
- Look endlessly before cooking a chop — or soup
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The straight part
We know that "soup" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case soup = gazpacho.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.
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What does GAZPACHO mean?
GAZPACHO noun- A cold soup of Spanish origin, made with olive oil, vinegar and raw vegetables such as tomatoes, garlic, onion, cucumber and sweet peppers.