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British songstress cutting Hypatia’s cake (9)

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I believe the answer is:

madeleine

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'cake' is the definition.
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'british songstress cutting hypatia's' is the wordplay.
'british songstress' becomes 'adele' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'cutting' means one lot of letters goes inside another (some letters cut their way into a word).
'hypatia's' becomes 'mine' (where the crossword setter is 'Hypatia').
'adele' placed into 'mine' is 'MADELEINE'.

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(Other definitions for madeleine that I've seen before include "Item on sweet menu" , "Small sponge cake" , "Woman" .)

I've seen this clue in The Hindu.
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