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Aunt Sal cooked dried fruit (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

sultana

'dried fruit' is the definition.
(sultana is a kind of dried fruit)

'aunt sal cooked' is the wordplay.
'cooked' indicates anagramming the letters (letters cooked into a new form).
'aunt'+'sal'='auntsal'
'auntsal' is an anagram of 'SULTANA'.

(Other definitions for sultana that I've seen before include "Dried fruit - Muslim ruler's consort" , "Queen of fruits?" , "Shrivelled up" , "Dry seedless grape" , "Dried white grape" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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