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Confection produced by Clara and me (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

caramel

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'confection' is the definition.
(caramel is a kind of confection)

'clara and me' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'me' is within the answer.
an anagram of 'clara' is 'caral' which is within the remaining letters.
No letters remain.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

'produced by' is the link.

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(Other definitions for caramel that I've seen before include "Burnt sugar used for flavouring" , "Cooked sugar" , "It's produced by heating sugar until brown" , "Sugar solution heated till brown" , "Soft sweet" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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