The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 plus 5 letter word HOT STUFF
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More clues leading to the result HOT STUFF
- Talented person's curry concoction?
- A dish just out of the oven to eat greedily?
- Important person gets recently stolen goods
- A dish – vindaloo?
- Exciting thing, molten lava perhaps?
- Popular curry, say?
- Keen to bonk sexy type
- Chilli, for example, flavour of the month?
- Chip fat, for example, wonderful thing
- Pet swallows rum tots for excellent performance
Buddy explains!
The straight part
We know that "excellent performance" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case excellent performance = hot stuff.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.
Sadly, We don't have an explanation for this specific crossword clue yet.