The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word SPECIAL
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More clues leading to the result SPECIAL
- Place is curiously distinctive
- Small cooked plaice, dish of the day
- Running place is important
- Peculiar dish of the day, perhaps
- Menu extra: mushroom rolled in crust partly
- Particular recollection of cool drinks coming round
- Particular place is affected
- Particular place is rearranged
- Battered plaice’s a dish not on the menu
- & 15ac. “Unusual screwing – cool!” – but Trump may well ruin it for May
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The straight part
We know that "dish of the day" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case dish of the day = special.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 SPECIAL mean?
SPECIAL noun- A reduction in consumer cost (usually for a limited time) for items or services rendered.
- One of a rotation of meals systematically offered for a lower price at a restaurant.
- Unusual or exceptional episode of a series.
- A special constable.
- Anything that is not according to normal practice, plan, or schedule, as an unscheduled run of transportation that is normally scheduled.
- Any unlicensed medicine produced or obtained for a specific individual patient.
- A correspondent; a journalist sent to the scene of an event to report back.
- A dispatch sent back by a special correspondent.
- A light that illuminates a specific person or thing on the stage.
- (nursing) To supervise a patient one-on-one.
- Distinguished by a unique or unusual quality.
- Of particular personal interest or value; dear; beloved.
- Of or related to learning or intellectual disabilities.
- Constituting or relating to a species.
- Chief in excellence.
- Of or related to unconventional warfare, as in "special forces" and "special operations".