The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word LEEKS
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result LEEKS
- More than one vegetable has a hole in it, we hear?
- Vegetables should be glossy, first to last
- Vegetables, smooth, first to last
- Produce sound of secret disclosures
- Heard embarrassing disclosures of soup ingredients?
- Small boat capsized with vegetables
- Loudly spills the beans or vegetables?
- More than one garden veggie is spilling the beans, you say?
- Veggies in shelter originally knitted sweaters
- Vegetables, glossy, beginning to droop
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The straight part
We know that "Vegetables" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case vegetables = leeks.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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What does LEEKS mean?
LEEKS noun- The vegetable Allium ampeloprasum var. porrum, having edible leaves and an onion-like bulb but with a milder flavour than the onion.
- Any of several species of Allium, broadly resembling the domesticated plant in appearance in the wild.