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Cooking ingredient, gluey drops plastered round end of spoon? (6,5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

golden syrup

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'gluey drops plastered round end of spoon?' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this definition defines the answer.

'cooking ingredient' is the wordplay.
'cooking' becomes 'golden' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'ingredient' becomes 'syrup' (syrup is a kind of ingredient).
'golden'+'syrup'='GOLDEN SYRUP'

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(Other definitions for golden syrup that I've seen before include "Sticky, sugary yellow foodstuff" , "Product of the evaporation of cane sugar juice" , "Light treacle used in 5 down" , "Pale treacle" , "sweetener" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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