The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word SYRUP
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More clues leading to the result SYRUP
- Sweetener your drink contains
- Son raised to protect younger one’s sweet but thick
- Take tea, perhaps, without your sweetener
- Something sweet in your short parting drink
- Sweet stuff, surely without content, and not entirely wholesome on reflection
- Take drink without your sweetener
- Solution to receding hairline uneasy Rupert adopts
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The straight part
We know that "one’s sweet but thick" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case one’s sweet but thick = syrup.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does SYRUP mean?
SYRUP noun- Any thick liquid that has a high sugar content and which is added to or poured over food as a flavouring.
- (by extension) Any viscous liquid.
- (shortened from "syrup of figs") A wig.