The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word ORANGE
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More clues leading to the result ORANGE
- Zero scope for movement — and hence a squash?
- Old compass as stocking filler
- House fruit
- Fruit from orchard's first row
- African flower colour
- Fruit cultivated in Gerona
- Fruit: love assortment
- Interrupting work, managed to catch one’s butterfly
- Colour having zero scope
- Old grazing land about to penetrate edges of the orchard feature
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The straight part
We know that "squash" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case squash = orange.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 ORANGE mean?
ORANGE noun- An evergreen tree of the genus Citrus such as Citrus sinensis.
- The fruit of an orange tree; a citrus fruit with a slightly sour flavour.
- The colour of a ripe fruit of an orange tree, midway between red and yellow.
- Orange juice.
- Orange coloured and flavoured cordial.
- Orange coloured and flavoured soft drink.
- To color orange.
- To become orange.
- Having the colour of the fruit of an orange tree; yellowred; reddish-yellow.