The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word GRAVY
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
G
R
A
V
Y
More clues leading to the result GRAVY
- What's sometimes poured on potato, like where one gets buried?
- Sauce from elegist penning verse
- Cash that goes by boat or train?
- Seriously offloading the Spanish funds
- Something saucy – it is lacking in seriousness
- The sauce of it, deserting the force!
- Meat sauce, initially greasy, runny and very yucky
- Serious changes at the end of a kind of train
- Extra benefit of weightiness, after losing it
- Weight: after losing it, unexpected benefit
Buddy explains!
The straight part
We know that "Sauce" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case sauce = gravy.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.
Sadly, We don't have an explanation for this specific crossword clue yet.
What does GRAVY mean?
GRAVY noun- A thick sauce made from the fat or juices that come out from meat or vegetables as they are being cooked.
- A type of gravy.
- (Italian-American) Sauce used for pasta.
- Curry sauce.
- Unearned gain.
- Extra benefit.