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Express disapproval over end of supper with extremely little soup? (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

turtle

'soup?' is the definition.
(turtle soup is a kind of soup)

'express disapproval over end of supper with extremely little' is the wordplay.
'express disapproval' becomes 'tut' (tutting is making a disapproving sound).
'over' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'end of' indicates one should take the final letters.
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'extremely' says to hollow out the word (remove centre letters) (only the extremes of the word are used).
'little' with its middle taken out is 'le'.
The final letter of 'supper' is 'r'.
'tut' going around 'r' is 'turt'.
'turt'+'le'='TURTLE'

(Other definitions for turtle that I've seen before include "Marine reptile with shell" , "Large marine reptile (with a fashionable neck!)" , "Swimming reptile" , "Sea creature like tortoise" , "Reptile - (kind of) dove" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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