The Clue
Necessary ingredients (7 letter answer)
The Answer
FIXINGS
Tags
Notes
The answer FIXINGS is so rare that it appears less than once every 2500 puzzles.
Definition
FIXINGS as a noun:
1. (ingredient, fixings) = food that is a component of a mixture in cooking; "the recipe lists all the fixings for a salad"
2. (fixings, trimmings) = the accessories that normally accompany (something or some activity); "an elaborate formal dinner with all the fixings"; "he bought a Christmas tree and trimmings to decorate it"
FIXING as a noun:
1. (repair, fix, fixing, fixture, mend, mending, reparation) = the act of putting something in working order again
2. (fastener, fastening, holdfast, fixing) = restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place
3. (neutering, fixing, altering) = the sterilization of an animal; "they took him to the vet for neutering"
4. (fixation, fixing) = (histology) the preservation and hardening of a tissue sample to retain as nearly as possible the same relations they had in the living body