The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 10 letter word STRAWBERRY
I've seen this crossword clue in The Guardian
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More clues leading to the result STRAWBERRY
- New brewery tsar dismissing English version of fruity beer
- Jack and Mary?
- Sort of fields amongst high waters by rivers
- Wide bowled by mistake into random bush
- Fruit star trained with food writer Mary
- Pepper was associated with such fields in the 60s
- Street by harsh Northern town reportedly offering fruit
- Street battle over heartless boy snatching stray food
- Sweet thing lying in bed that may get dressed for afternoon tea
- Pinkish-red growths turn up on Chuck, maybe
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The straight part
We know that "Pinkish-red" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case pinkish-red = strawberry.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does STRAWBERRY mean?
STRAWBERRY noun- The sweet, usually red, edible fruit of certain plants of the genus Fragaria.
- Any plant of the genus Fragaria (that bears such fruit).
- A dark pinkish red colour, like that of the fruit; strawberry red.
- Something resembling a strawberry, especially a reddish bruise, birthmark, or infantile hemangioma (naevus).
- A prostitute who exchanges sexual services for crack cocaine.
- To gather strawberries.
- To turn a dark pinkish-red.
- Containing or having the flavor of strawberries.
- Flavored with ethyl methylphenylglycidate, an artificial compound which is said to resemble the taste of strawberries.
- Of a color similar to ripened strawberries.