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Cooked tapas and ziti, say (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

pasta

'ziti say' is the definition.
(ziti is a kind of pasta)

'cooked tapas' is the wordplay.
'cooked' is an anagram indicator (letters cooked into a new form).
'tapas' is an anagram of 'PASTA'.

'and' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for pasta that I've seen before include "Spaghetti, perhaps" , "The stuff of spaghetti, macaroni etc" , "Linguine, e.g." , "Rigatoni, tortellini etc" , "E.g. fusilli" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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