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Cook tangy pie– like mummy? (8)

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egyptian

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(Other definitions for egyptian that I've seen before include "Nationality of citizen of Cairo" , "Cleopatra or Tutankhamun, say" , "Nationality of Cleopatra" , "NE African" , "One from Suez" .)

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