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Calms with cooked sausages? (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

assuages

'calms' is the definition.
(I know this)

'cooked sausages?' is the wordplay.
'cooked' indicates anagramming the letters (letters cooked into a new form).
'sausages' with letters rearranged gives 'ASSUAGES'.

'with' is the link.

(Other definitions for assuages that I've seen before include "Soothes with sausages" , "provides relief" , "Satisfies an appetite or desires" , "Makes something less severe, pain say" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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