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Cooking hot flan? Absolutely! (3,4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

not half

'absolutely' is the definition.
(both can mean 'extremely')

'cooking hot flan?' is the wordplay.
'cooking' is an anagram indicator (cook can mean to falsify or distort).
'hot'+'flan'='hotflan'
'hotflan' anagrammed gives 'NOT HALF'.

(Other definitions for not half that I've seen before include "Too right!" , "Forty nine per cent" , "missing 50%" , "Absolutely (but less than 50%!)" , "Very much (but less than 50%)!" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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