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Sauce, still primarily considered the greatest, served up poorly (10)

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I believe the answer is:

piccalilli

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'sauce' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both things that one consumes for nourishment as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?

'still primarily considered the greatest served up poorly' is the wordplay.
'still' becomes 'pic' (short for picture).
'primarily considered' becomes 'c' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'the greatest' becomes 'Ali' (Muhammad Ali was known as the Greatest).
'served up' says the letters should be written backwards (in a down clue, going upwards).
'poorly' becomes 'ill' (synonyms).
'ill' reversed gives 'lli'.
'pic'+'c'+'ali'+'lli'='PICCALILLI'

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(Other definitions for piccalilli that I've seen before include "Mixed vegetables in a mustard sauce" , "Relish with chopped pickled cucumbers, green peppers and onion" , "Hot pickle" , "Chopped vegetables, mustard and hot spices" , "preserve with mustard" .)

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