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As baked at some stage in experimental labs? (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

bagels

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'as baked at some' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this defines the answer.

'stage in experimental labs?' is the wordplay.
'stage' becomes 'ge' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'in' is an insertion indicator.
'experimental' indicates anagramming the letters.
'labs' with letters rearranged gives 'bals'.
'ge' placed into 'bals' is 'BAGELS'.

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(Other definitions for bagels that I've seen before include "Doughnut-shaped roll with hard crust" , "Hard ring-shaped rolls" , "Doughnut-shaped bread rolls" , "Ring-shaped bread rolls" , "Jewish bread rolls" .)

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