The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word BRATWURST
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result BRATWURST
- Sausage and mash — was butter right substitute for energy?
- Tell wife entering to split sausage
- 18’s wife brought in to explode banger in Munich?
- Returning with sailor, popped outside for something to eat
- Split open on the outside, tine originally prodding uncooked sausage
- Pop devouring miserable specimen with sausage
- Pesky child’s most awful-sounding banger
- Popped round end of street, tucking into uncooked sausage
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The straight part
We know that "something to eat" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case something to eat = bratwurst.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 BRATWURST mean?
BRATWURST noun- A small pork sausage, usually served fried.