The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word CINNAMON
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More clues leading to the result CINNAMON
- One engaged by TV network in the morning working in brown
- Stocked by fantastic inn, amontillado’s spicy stuff
- Picked up criminal with second name that’s Brown
- Victualling-house in river getting on with flavouring
- Spice for 15 Roman character early in the week
- Working dogs returning last of carrion amid frenzied bark
- Person at fault reportedly, one that’s entered order largely for spicy stuff
- Something spicy to read about pub in the morning
- Cracked up about new acceptable flavouring
- Crooked conman smuggling fashionable spice
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The straight part
We know that "spicy stuff" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case spicy stuff = cinnamon.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does CINNAMON mean?
CINNAMON noun- A small evergreen tree native to Sri Lanka and southern India, Cinnamomum verum or Cinnamomum zeylanicum, belonging to the family Lauraceae.
- Several related trees, notably the Indonesian cinnamon (Cinnamomum burmanni) and Chinese cinnamon or cassia (Cinnamomum aromaticum or Cinnamomum cassia).
- A spice from the dried aromatic bark of the cinnamon tree, either rolled into strips or ground into a powder. The word is commonly used as trade name for spices made of any of the species above.
- A warm yellowish-brown color, the color of cinnamon.
- Containing cinnamon, or having a cinnamon taste.
- Of a yellowish-brown color.