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Dreadful fare cooked, not all (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

fearsome

'dreadful' is the definition.
(I know that dreadful can be written as fearsome)

'fare cooked not all' is the wordplay.
'cooked' is an anagram indicator (letters cooked into a new form).
'not all' becomes 'some' ('some' is the opposite to 'all').
'fare' with letters rearranged gives 'fear'.
'fear'+'some'='FEARSOME'

(Other definitions for fearsome that I've seen before include "Daunting" , "Frightful" , "Dreadful" , "Horrendous" , "Formidable" .)

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