The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 plus 4 letter word TOAST RACK
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More clues leading to the result TOAST RACK
- Where to stand round at breakfast?
- Feature of breakfast course round oven
- Where soldiers might be held up before their division?
- To rail about a small breakfast utensil
- Rolled oats course that’s on the breakfast table?
- Spooner’s cooked nail, metal item at breakfast?
- Mark carrying cooker round home?
- Item for the breakfast table in oven, hunt sandwiches
- Item on breakfast table, perhaps rolled oats, eaten by dog
- Spooner’s cooked food that’s on the breakfast table
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The straight part
We know that "Where soldiers might be held up before their division?" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case where soldiers might be held up before their division? = toast rack.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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