The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word TREACLE
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More clues leading to the result TREACLE
- Cereal stirred below temperature becoming syrup
- Liquid needed for theatre – a clean-up
- In Montmartre, a clear, sticky substance
- Sticky substance in bottom of pot on variety of cereal
- Sticky liquid, a centilitre found in maple, for example
- Something sweet rascal occasionally placed in box?
- Too much sentimentality arising from Electra complex
- Regularly visited La Scala, sitting in box? It’s sweet!
- Sweet stuff in parcels regularly carried by plane?
- Sweet stuff, torte, parcelled oddly
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The straight part
We know that "Something sweet" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case something sweet = treacle.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does TREACLE mean?
TREACLE noun- A syrupy byproduct of sugar refining; molasses or golden syrup.
- Cloying sentimental speech.
- Sweetheart (from treacle tart).
- An antidote for poison; theriac.
- Any all-powerful curative; a general remedy, a cure-all.
- To apply treacle to a surface, so as to catch flies or moths, etc.