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A vegetable Eric and Alec cooked (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

celeriac

'a vegetable' is the definition.
(celeriac is a kind of vegetable)

'eric and alec cooked' is the wordplay.
'and' says to put letters next to each other.
'cooked' indicates an anagram (letters cooked into a new form).
'eric' put after 'alec' is 'aleceric'.
'aleceric' is an anagram of 'CELERIAC'.

(Other definitions for celeriac that I've seen before include "Odd root vegetable for Alec Rice" , "It has a root like a turnip" , "Plant with a turnip-like 1 down" , "Edible root of a variety of celery plant" , "Turnip-rooted celery" .)

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