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Creating coal fire and our bacon's cooking (13)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

carboniferous

'creating coal' is the definition.

'fire and our bacon's cooking' is the wordplay.
'and' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'cooking' is an anagram indicator.
'fire'+'our'+'bacons'='fireourbacons'
'fireourbacons' is an anagram of 'CARBONIFEROUS'.

(Another definition for carboniferous that I've seen is " Producing coal; geological period".)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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