The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word CORNCOB
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More clues leading to the result CORNCOB
- My corporal maybe beginning to bawl: in the ear, that is!
- Noise comes on, banging at first on my inner ear
- Cowboy’s head, squashed by bucking bronco, reveals inside of ear
- Pipe band’s leader chasing sailors, wearing Chanel
- Small growth on horse — hard bit of ear
- Croon about riding in taxi without a pipe?
- It’s smoked chestnuts and hazelnut
- Bronco goes crazy after ingesting cold maize by-product
- Sailor is hired by companies to start building part of plant
- Sort of pipe Spooner couldn’t confuse!
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The straight part
We know that "/part of plant" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case /part of plant = corncob.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 CORNCOB mean?
CORNCOB noun- The central cylindrical core of an ear of corn (maize) on which the kernels are attached in rows.
- (of turbines and rotor blades) to disintegrate by the blades becoming severed from the axis
- To destroy, to destruct, to defeat