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Cooking with salmon in tin, tartaned one? (10)

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clanswoman

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'cooking with salmon in tin tartaned one?' is the definition.
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'cooking with salmon in tin' is the wordplay.
'cooking' indicates an anagram (letters cooked up into a new form).
'with' becomes 'w' (short for with).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'tin' becomes 'can' (synonyms).
'w'+'salmon'='wsalmon'
'wsalmon' is an anagram of 'lanswom'.
'lanswom' inserted inside 'can' is 'CLANSWOMAN'.

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