The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word POTATO
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More clues leading to the result POTATO
- Vegetable dish and a half-portion of tofu
- Vegetable, too apt, switched
- Eg King Edward’s area adopted by slow-climbing primate
- Vegetable dish and ham too, served regularly
- Perhaps King Edward‘s dropping round junk
- Old rubbish in river
- Spot a tortoise eating a tuber
- Books covering over vegetable
- Plant in vessel with a short lid
- Cup presented wrongly to a lazy person
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The straight part
We know that "Vegetable" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case vegetable = potato.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.
Sadly, We don't have an explanation for this specific crossword clue yet.
What does POTATO mean?
POTATO noun- The tuber of a plant, Solanum tuberosum, eaten as a starchy vegetable, particularly in the Americas and Europe; this plant.
- A conspicuous hole in a sock or stocking
- A camera that takes poor-quality pictures.
- A mentally handicapped person.
- An underpowered computer or other device, especially when small in size.