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Bribe consisting of cake and sugar essentially (4)

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I believe the answer is:

bung

'bribe' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'cake and sugar essentially' is the wordplay.
'cake' becomes 'bun' (bun is a type of cake).
'and' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'essentially' means to look at the middle letters.
The middle letter of 'sugar' is 'g'.
'bun'+'g'='BUNG'

'consisting of' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for bung that I've seen before include "Rubber stopper" , "Spigot or cork" , "Somehow stop" , "Stopper for closing hole in barrel" , "could be a corker" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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