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Clear soup with chunk of enriched grains (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

cereal

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'enriched grains' is the definition.
The answer and definition are not the same part of speech. However, adjectives and past participle verbs sometimes mean the same thing.

'clear soup with chunk' is the wordplay.
'clear' suggests removing the centre (I've seen 'cleared' mean this (the inside letters are cleared out)).
'soup' becomes 'consomme' (consomme is a kind of soup).
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'chunk' becomes 'real' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'consomme' with its centre removed is 'ce'.
'ce'+'real'='CEREAL'

'of' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for cereal that I've seen before include "11 food, maybe" , "Eg, 5 Ac" , "output from harvest?" , "Rye, for example" , "Grass producing an edible grain" .)

I've seen this clue in The Hindu.
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