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To provide a honeycomb filter for cleaning exhaust gas, which is excellent in heat resistance and thermal shock resistance and has high thermal decomposition resistance and high mechanical strength and which is thus capable of being used with stability at high and fluctuating temperatures, and a process for its production. n A honeycomb filter for removing fine solid particles containing carbon as the main component in an exhaust gas, characterized in that the material for the honeycomb filter is an aluminum magnesium titanate sintered product obtained by firing at from 1000 to 1700°C a formed product from a mixture comprising a Mg-containing compound, an A1-containing compound and a Ti-containing compound in the same metal component ratio as the metal component ratio of Mg, Al and Ti in aluminum magnesium titanate represented by the empirical formula Mg x Al 2(1-x) Ti (1+x) O 5 (wherein 0<x<1), or a mixture comprising 100 parts by mass, as calculated as oxides, of the above-mentioned mixture and from 1 to 10 parts by mass of an alkali feldspar represented by the empirical formula (Na y K 1-y )AlSi 3 O 8 (wherein 0≦y≦1). |