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A puzzle served half after a meal (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

teaser

'a puzzle' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)

'served half after a meal' is the wordplay.
'half' suggests halving the letters.
'after' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'a meal' becomes 'tea' (tea is a type of meal).
'served' cut in half is 'ser'.
'ser' put after 'tea' is 'TEASER'.

(Other definitions for teaser that I've seen before include "A difficult problem of Teresa" , "one using a backcomb" , "Puzzling question or gentle goader" , "inducement" , "Tricky question; intriguing preliminary advert" .)

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