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A pie's cooked to a nice shade of brown (5)

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I believe the answer is:

sepia

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'shade of brown' is the definition.
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'a pie's cooked to a' is the wordplay.
'cooked' indicates an anagram (letters cooked into a new form).
'pies' is an anagram of 'sepi'.
'sepi'+'a'='SEPIA'

'nice' is the link.
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(Other definitions for sepia that I've seen before include "Colour of old photographs" , "Former photographic pigment" , "source of ink" , "Rich reddish-brown colour" , "Reddish-brown; cuttlefish ink" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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