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Face cry that's voiced for pasta topping (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

meatball

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'pasta topping' is the definition.

'face cry that's voiced' is the wordplay.
'face' becomes 'meat' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'cry' becomes 'bawl' (synonyms).
'that's voiced' shows a homophone (sound like).
'bawl' is a homophone of 'ball'.
'meat'+'ball'='MEATBALL'

'for' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for meatball that I've seen before include "Item in the Greek dish keftedes" , "Kofta, perhaps" , "Sphere of cooked mince" , "Lamb tale? (Anag)" , "Globular food item" .)

I've seen this clue in The Everyman puzzle in The Observer.
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