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Dish made by male artists? (5)

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I believe the answer is:

ramen

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

'by male artists?' is the wordplay.
'by' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'male' becomes 'men' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'artists?' becomes 'RA' (Royal Academy of the Arts).
'men' after 'ra' is 'RAMEN'.

'made' is the link.

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(Other definitions for ramen that I've seen before include "soup" , "Quick-cooking noodles" , "Exotic dish" , "Oriental noodles" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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