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Cloth, largely covering English breakfast? (6)

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I believe the answer is:

muesli

'breakfast?' is the definition.
(common breakfast food)

'cloth largely covering english' is the wordplay.
'cloth' becomes 'muslin' (muslin is a type of cloth).
'largely' means to remove the last letter.
'covering' indicates putting letters inside.
'english' becomes 'e' (abbreviation).
'muslin' with its last letter taken off is 'musli'.
'musli' going around 'e' is 'MUESLI'.

(Other definitions for muesli that I've seen before include "Swiss breakfast?" , "Mixture of crushed cereals. nuts and fruit" , "Breakfast food of cereal, nuts, dried fruit etc with milk" , "Mixture of untoasted dry cereals and fruits" , "Breakfast food of cereals, fruits, nuts etc" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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