The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 plus 7 letter word BRUSSELS SPROUTS
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More clues leading to the result BRUSSELS SPROUTS
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- Chap wearing motley sports blues and greens
- European Parliament talks at length about right vegetables
- Vegetables — stores surplus supply in empty boxes
- Perhaps fare at Christmas, as EU delegates here, shoots up
- Vegetable from a capital with a river in the midst of geysers
Buddy explains!

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 = brussels sprouts.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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