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Extremely concerned about upper-class celebrity’s sauce (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

custard

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

'extremely concerned about upper-class celebrity's' is the wordplay.
'extremely' suggests removing the centre (only the extremes of the word are used).
'about' indicates putting letters inside.
'upper class' becomes 'u' (as in U- and non-U speech).
'celebrity's' becomes 'star' (I've seen this before).
'concerned' with its centre removed is 'cd'.
'u'+'star'='ustar'
'cd' going around 'ustar' is 'CUSTARD'.

(Other definitions for custard that I've seen before include "Yellow mixture" , "Type of apple" , "Pudding sauce" , "Dessert sauce" , "Pudding accompaniment" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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