The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word TANDOORI
I've seen this crossword clue in The Guardian
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More clues leading to the result TANDOORI
- Time one secures a new opening for Indian cooking
- Sort of restaurant, one with yellowy-brown entrance
- Food baked brown, the first thing to open?
- . Also, grub is served up around one in such a style?
- Too right I hold with Indian cooking!
- Cook, wearing brown and gold, beginning to indicate style of cuisine
- Riot brewing about unlimited people cooking chicken in Indian style
- Often red dish with lines on top, bottom in amber and indigo
- Restaurant with a new entrance in it put up
- Do nothing in fixing train fare from India
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The straight part
We know that "cooking chicken in Indian style" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case cooking chicken in indian style = tandoori.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 TANDOORI mean?
TANDOORI noun- (of food) A dish that was cooked in a tandoor.
- (of food) Cooked in a tandoor.