The Clue
Some banquets (6 letter answer)
The Answer
ROASTS
Tags
Notes
The answer ROASTS is uncommon, appearing about once every 500 puzzles.
Related Clues
Entrees
Wingdings
Certain tributes
Country parties
Family dinners
Friars' fetes
Friars' frivolities?
Heats excessively
Honors, in a way
Meat treats
Prepares, as chestnuts
Ridicules mercilessly
Some tributes
Some wingdings
Spoofs, in a way
Sunday dinners
Uses the oven
Exposes to dry heat
Friars Club events
Lets have it
Lies in the summer sun
Ribs or ribbings, maybe
Some celebrity tributes
Some hot suppers
Top and bottom round
Entrees brought out with carving knives
Definition
ROAST as a noun:
1. (roast, joint) = a piece of meat roasted or for roasting and of a size for slicing into more than one portion
2. (knock, roast) = negative criticism
ROAST as a verb:
1. cook with dry heat, usually in an oven; "roast the turkey"
2. (ridicule, roast, guy, blackguard, laugh at, jest at, rib, make fun, poke fun) = subject to laughter or ridicule; "The satirists ridiculed the plans for a new opera house"; "The students poked fun at the inexperienced teacher"; "His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday"