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Chicken and canned soup's popular (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

poussin

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

'canned soup's popular' is the wordplay.
'canned' is an anagram indicator (canned can mean drunk).
'popular' becomes 'in'.
'soups' with letters rearranged gives 'pouss'.
'pouss'+'in'='POUSSIN'

'and' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for poussin that I've seen before include "young bird" , "Small chicken; painter" , "Artist" , "Young chicken for eating - French painter, d. 1665" , "He painted" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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