The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word APPLES
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result APPLES
- Missing software downloads briefly bearing fruit
- Fruit beers containing odd pieces of pepo
- Fruit beers containing emptied-out pulp
- Signs of discord? International lost has relevance
- Two soft drinks taken outside by Jonathan and Granny Smith
- Gas pipe intermittently leaks – a risk ultimately disregarded for cookers?
- Fruit drinks including pop devoid of content
- Fruit pulp oddly eaten by primates
- . Greece manages to export fruits
- Primates go around place for fruits
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The straight part
We know that "Jonathan and Granny Smith" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case jonathan and granny smith = apples.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 APPLES mean?
APPLES noun- A common, round fruit produced by the tree Malus domestica, cultivated in temperate climates.
- Any of various tree-borne fruits or vegetables especially considered as resembling an apple; also (with qualifying words) used to form the names of other specific fruits such as custard apple, rose apple, thorn apple etc.
- The fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, eaten by Adam and Eve according to post-Biblical Christian tradition; the forbidden fruit.
- A tree of the genus Malus, especially one cultivated for its edible fruit; the apple tree.
- The wood of the apple tree.
- (in the plural) Short for apples and pears, slang for stairs.
- The ball in baseball.
- When smiling, the round, fleshy part of the cheeks between the eyes and the corners of the mouth.
- A Native American or red-skinned person who acts and/or thinks like a white (Caucasian) person.
- (ice hockey slang) An assist.
- To become apple-like.
- To form buds.
- (Australian rhyming slang) Nice, fine.
- Testicles.
- Stairs