The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word RENNET
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result RENNET
- Return of banknote, which may be in Leicester, say
- Setter demanding cashback?
- Send up note for producer of junket
- Note upcoming cheese agent
- Note round variety of apple
- Note about what cheese-maker needs
- Cheesemakers use this apple
- Send up note to get ingredient for cheesemaking
- Bank note returned
- Separatist agent’s revolutionary note
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What does RENNET mean?
RENNET noun- An enzyme used as the first step in making cheese, to curdle the milk and coagulate the casein in it, derived by soaking the fourth stomach of a milk-fed calf in brine.
- Any of various kinds of apple, mostly of French origin, characterized by russeting.