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Cook puts on fancy manners away from the servants' quarters (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

upstairs

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'away from the servants' quarters' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this defines the answer.

'cook puts on fancy manners' is the wordplay.
'cook' is an anagram indicator.
'on' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'fancy manners' becomes 'airs' (air is a kind of manner. I am not sure about the 'fancy' bit.**).
'puts' with letters rearranged gives 'upst'.
'upst'+'airs'='UPSTAIRS'

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(Other definitions for upstairs that I've seen before include "at the next level" , "Mentally (colloquial)" , "flight" , "In the top half of a house" , "On a higher floor" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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