The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 plus 5 letter word SALSA VERDE
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More clues leading to the result SALSA VERDE
- Serve salad spiced up with sauce
- Serve salad, tossed: it contains capers and anchovies
- Magpie and dove primarily in demand for sauce
- Investor in new deals
- Several ads in resort for sauce
- Serve salad, blended sauce being required
- Serve salad that had been prepared with Italian sauce
- Economical sort taken in by dodgy deals for sauce
- Free deals cut by one hoarding sauce
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The straight part
We know that "Serve salad spiced up with sauce" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case serve salad spiced up with sauce = salsa verde.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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