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A plum pudding encrusted snake in the grass (8)

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I believe the answer is:

paspalum

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'the grass' is the definition.
(paspalum is a kind of grass)

'a plum pudding encrusted snake in' is the wordplay.
'pudding' indicates an anagram (a mixture or pudding of the letters).
'encrusted snake' becomes 'asp' (asp is a kind of snake. I am not sure about the 'encrusted' bit.).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'a'+'plum'='aplum'
'aplum' anagrammed gives 'palum'.
'palum' enclosing 'asp' is 'PASPALUM'.

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