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Exercising aplomb when eating starter of crispy hot cutlet (4,4)

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I believe the answer is:

lamb chop

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'cutlet' is the definition.
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'exercising aplomb when eating starter of crispy hot' is the wordplay.
'exercising' is an anagram indicator (letters exercise or move around).
'when eating' indicates putting letters inside.
'starter of' indicates taking the first letters.
The first letters of 'crispy hot' is 'ch'.
'aplomb' with letters rearranged gives 'lambop'.
'lambop' enclosing 'ch' is 'LAMB CHOP'.

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(Other definitions for lamb chop that I've seen before include "Slice of meat" , "Cut of meat used to make a guard of honour" , "Something to eat" , "Slice including a rib, served with mint sauce?" , "Cut of meat from a sheep" .)

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