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… also sherry oddly put in cabbage dish (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

casserole

'dish' is the definition.
(casserole is a kind of dish)

'also sherry oddly put in cabbage' is the wordplay.
'oddly' means one should take alternating letters (letters in the odd-numbered positions are used).
'put in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'cabbage' becomes 'cole' (cole is a kind of cabbage).
'also'+'sherry'='alsosherry'
The alternating letters of 'alsosherry' are 'asser'.
'asser' going into 'cole' is 'CASSEROLE'.

(Other definitions for casserole that I've seen before include "(Food cooked in a) stewpot" , "Dish (served in a dish of the same name)" , "Stew-pan" , "Dish cooked in an earthenware pot" , "meal" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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