A capital girl for making pasta (8)

I believe the answer is:

rigatoni

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'making pasta' is the definition.
'rigatoni' can be an answer for 'pasta' (rigatoni is a kind of pasta). I am not sure about the 'making' bit.

'a capital girl' is the wordplay.
'a capital' becomes 'Riga' (capital of Latvia).
'girl' becomes 'toni' ().
'riga'+'toni'='RIGATONI'

'for' is the link.

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(Other definitions for rigatoni that I've seen before include "Type of pasta" , "Short, ribbed, tubular pasta" , "Pasta - I got rain (anag)" , "Short fluted tubes of pasta" , "Pasta; at origin (anag.)" .)

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