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Cook fish within, without compulsion (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

freely

'without compulsion' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'cook fish within' is the wordplay.
'cook' becomes 'fry' (frying is a type of cooking).
'fish' becomes 'eel' (eel is a type of fish).
'within' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'fry' going around 'eel' is 'FREELY'.

(Other definitions for freely that I've seen before include "Liberally; willingly" , "Without restriction or payment" , "easily" , "boldly" , "Without let or hindrance" .)

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