The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word EARTHY
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More clues leading to the result EARTHY
- Cooked, the ray is gross
- Piece of primitive art, hysterically coarse
- Sweetheart hypothetically, in part, crude
- Head of corn belonging to you once covered in soil
- Coarse head of corn starts to turn healthily yellow
- Discontinued your following something corny and crude
- Rough, jovial husband appearing late
- Blue soil at end of rockery
- Unrefined cycling centre unknown
- Blue Planet back on telly
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What does EARTHY mean?
EARTHY adjective- Resembling dirt or soil (i.e. earth).
- Down-to-earth, not artificial, natural.
- Coarse and unrefined, crude.
- Like or resembling the earth or of the earth.
- Covered with earth (mud, dirt).