The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word BAGUETTE
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More clues leading to the result BAGUETTE
- Get a tube made specially for lunch in France?
- Stick a short gun in more efficiently when sawn-off
- French loaf son snatched from visitor in temper
- In bad temper, visitor denied small piece of bread
- Loaf taken from wrapper and chewed noisily
- Spreadendlessly round a loaf of bread
- Be full of sickness, having dry bread
- Rattling tube, get a long stick
- Lengthy pain in France?
- Mostly cured, suppressing endless fever, revealing some pain?
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The straight part
We know that "Stick" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case stick = baguette.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 BAGUETTE mean?
BAGUETTE noun- A narrow, relatively long rectangular shape.
- A gem cut in such a shape.
- A variety of bread that is long and narrow in shape.
- A small molding, like the astragal, but smaller; a bead.
- One of the minute bodies seen in the divided nucleoli of some Infusoria after conjugation.
- (mildly offensive) A French person, or a person of French descent.