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Cook swallows fish without coercion (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

freely

'without coercion' is the definition.
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'cook swallows fish' is the wordplay.
'cook' becomes 'fry' (frying is a type of cooking).
'swallows' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'fish' becomes 'eel' (eel is a type of fish).
'fry' placed around 'eel' is 'FREELY'.

(Other definitions for freely that I've seen before include "boldly" , "in copious quantities" , "Without restriction or payment" , "Without compulsion" , "easily" .)

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