The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word CRUDITES
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More clues leading to the result CRUDITES
- Credit us with cooking raw fruit & veg
- Veggie hors d’oeuvre — butcher cursed it!
- Put it in oil with a pinch of salt to make appetisers
- Raw food cursed, it needing to be cooked
- Hors d’oeuvres? Some rubbish I fixed up
- Nibbles hard bread endlessly — retaining awful diet
- Raw vegetable food cursed; it needs to be cooked
- It is coated in oils to make appetisers
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The straight part
We know that "appetiser" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case appetiser = crudites.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 CRUDITES mean?
CRUDITES noun- Raw vegetables often served as an appetizer before a main dish; sometimes including fruits.