The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word CHOCOLATE
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More clues leading to the result CHOCOLATE
- Brown and black farm animal, sweetly pretty
- Cool cheat switched drink
- Sweet child’s getting cold feeding ducks after bedtime
- Sweet end of tale after crazy upset during conversation
- Switzerland’s worried about terribly cool gift for 9, perhaps
- Sweet cold drink in sweltering mid-September
- Bar snack 14 had?
- S ingredient – inchoate depression
- Bar snack?
- Drink most commonly sold in bars
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What does CHOCOLATE mean?
CHOCOLATE noun- A food made from ground roasted cocoa beans.
- A drink made by dissolving this food in boiling milk or water.
- A single, small piece of confectionery made from chocolate.
- A dark, reddish-brown colour/color, like that of chocolate (also called chocolate brown).
- A black person; blackness.
- (chiefly in the past participle) To add chocolate to; to cover (food) in chocolate.
- To treat blood agar by heating in order to lyse the red blood cells in the medium.
- Made of or containing chocolate.
- Having a dark reddish-brown colour/color.
- Black (relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin).