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European vegetable's ending in Cornish pasty, possibly? (7)

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I believe the answer is:

swedish

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

'vegetable's ending in cornish pasty possibly?' is the wordplay.
'ending' suggests the final letters.
'in' is an insertion indicator.
'cornish' becomes 'SW' (Cornwall is in the South West of England).
'pasty possibly?' becomes 'dish' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
The final letter of 'vegetable' is 'e'.
'sw'+'dish'='swdish'
'e' going within 'swdish' is 'SWEDISH'.

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(Other definitions for swedish that I've seen before include "He saw Miss Degas (anag) -- Scandinavian body work" , "Soprano Jenny Lind, b. Stockholm 1798, d. Herefordshire 1887" , "from European country" , "From Uppsala, perhaps" , "A Scandinavian language" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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