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Duck and hare cooked for prince (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

archduke

'prince' is the definition.
(archduke is a kind of prince)

'duck and hare cooked' is the wordplay.
'and' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'cooked' is an anagram indicator (letters cooked into a new form).
'duck' put after 'hare' is 'hareduck'.
'hareduck' anagrammed gives 'ARCHDUKE'.

'for' is the link.

(Other definitions for archduke that I've seen before include "European nobleman" , "Austrian noble" , "Prince of the former ruling house of Austria, Ferdinand for one" , "Emperor's son" , "Title of Franz Ferdinand, shot in Sarajevo in 1914" .)

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