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Claire's back-to-front cake (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

eclair

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'cake' is the definition.
(eclair is a type of cake)

'claire's back-to-front' is the wordplay.
'claire' can be anagrammed to 'ECLAIR'.
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(Other definitions for eclair that I've seen before include "Finger-shaped cream-filled cake of choux pastry" , "Long (but not long-lasting) cake" , "Chocolate-topped, cream-filled cake" , "Cake, "long in shape but short in duration"" , "I clear off with thin chocolate cake" .)

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