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Exotic broths featuring toppings of sour cream (8)

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borschts

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'exotic broths featuring toppings of sour cream' is the definition.
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'exotic broths featuring toppings of sour cream' is the wordplay.
'exotic' indicates an anagram (an unusual form of the letters).
'featuring' indicates putting letters inside.
'toppings of' indicates taking the first letters (in a down clue, letters at the tops of words).
The initial letters of 'sour cream' is 'sc'.
'broths' with letters rearranged gives 'borhts'.
'borhts' placed around 'sc' is 'BORSCHTS'.

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