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A potto cooked and eaten (6)

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I believe the answer is:

potato

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'and eaten' is the definition.
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'a potto cooked' is the wordplay.
'cooked' indicates anagramming the letters (letters cooked into a new form).
'a'+'potto'='apotto'
'apotto' with letters rearranged gives 'POTATO'.

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(Other definitions for potato that I've seen before include "Would be difficult to deal with if hot" , "The humble spud" , "King Edward, for example" , "Plant tuber eaten as a vegetable" , "The veg is too apt, oddly" .)

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