The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word SMETANA
I've seen this crossword clue in The Guardian
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More clues leading to the result SMETANA
- Scorer’s stock stories about start of match
- Composer run into in hospital area
- Scorer from Europe contacted in the Americas
- Composer from Wales met an arranger
- A team’s new ground produces scorer
- Got together in hospital with a composer
- Unusual sonata, nothing to be missed, this person’s penned?
- Music man roused at 7
- Small opera company wants an American composer
- Composer came across two articles on Shostakovich’s Fourth
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What does SMETANA mean?
SMETANA noun- A form of soured cream or crème fraîche from Central and Eastern Europe.