The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word HOMESPUN
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result HOMESPUN
- Simple dwellings
- Folksy detective dismissing learner with a joke
- Plain flat? Small play on words
- Rustic yarn?
- Unadorned verbal wit of an ex- PM?
- In-joke about Southern rustic
- Simple conundrum for Sherlock?
- Flat, perhaps — small verbal joke that’s unsophisticated
- Simple detective joke, as some would tell it
- Simple detective left out joke
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What does HOMESPUN mean?
HOMESPUN noun- Fabric made from homespun yarn. Also, machine made fabrics (usually cottons) similar to homespun fabrics in that solids, plaids, or stripes are created by weaving dyed threads (rather than printing), so that both sides of the fabric look the same.
- An unpolished, rustic person.
- (of yarn) Spun in the home.
- (of fabric) Woven in the home.
- (of clothing, etc.) Made from homespun fabric.
- (by extension) Plain and homely; unsophisticated and unpretentious.