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Desert seen when Walt and Jesse regularly cooked (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

wasteland

'desert' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'walt and jesse regularly cooked' is the wordplay.
'regularly' means one should take alternating letters (regularly take one letter, leave next etc.).
'cooked' indicates an anagram (letters cooked into a new form).
The alternating letters of 'jesse' are 'es'.
'walt'+'and'+'es'='waltandes'
'waltandes' with letters rearranged gives 'WASTELAND'.

'seen when' is the link.

(Other definitions for wasteland that I've seen before include "gave title to poet" , "(T. S. Eliot's) desert" , "Lewd Santa included in 'The . . . . . . . . .', poem by T S Eliot" , "Barren area" , "desolation" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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