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Dinner, say, including soup, an outcome of the change of life (10)

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I believe the answer is:

menopausal

'of the change of life' is the definition.
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'dinner say including soup an outcome' is the wordplay.
'dinner say' becomes 'meal' (dinner is a kind of meal).
'including' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'outcome' indicates an anagram (I've seen 'outcome of' mean this).
'soup'+'an'='soupan'
'soupan' with letters rearranged gives 'nopaus'.
'meal' enclosing 'nopaus' is 'MENOPAUSAL'.

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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