The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word EMMENTAL
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More clues leading to the result EMMENTAL
- Metal churns filled by chaps making cheese
- Take case from Edam before getting crackers and cheese
- Cheese measure’s ridiculous
- Chaps at head of table tucking into meal cooked with cheese
- Set me up with intellectual? Hard cheese!
- Setter’s thrown up nuts and cheese
- Strange metal boxes people used for cheese
- Cheese and crackers after meal half rejected
- See 1a
- Setter’s turned crazy
Buddy explains!
The straight part
We know that "cheese" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case cheese = emmental.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.
Sadly, We don't have an explanation for this specific crossword clue yet.