The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word HERBAL
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More clues leading to the result HERBAL
- Like some remedies brother turned over, central to cure
- Goddess welcomes bishop with fifty varieties of tea
- Tea and silly blather, wasting time
- Book about plants devoured by Brother Balthazar
- Like some tea the woman served before dance ended prematurely
- Making any girl nearly bald, like Rosemary
- Like some natural medicines used in that woman’s ointment, mainly
- Book in which cure includes tips of rue and burdock
- Brother relapses, covered in salve derived from plants
- Woman’s Indian food lacking note — typifying some tea?
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The straight part
We know that "Tea" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case tea = herbal.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 HERBAL mean?
HERBAL noun- A manual of herbs and their medical uses
- An herbal supplement
- Made from or with herbs.
- Made from natural herbs specifically as opposed to from synthetic materials.