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Family eating pigmeat finally suffers wind in Egypt (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

khamsin

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'wind in egypt' is the definition.
'khamsin' can be an answer for 'wind' (I've seen this before). I am unsure of the 'in egypt' bit.

'family eating pigmeat finally suffers' is the wordplay.
'family' becomes 'kin' (synonyms).
'eating' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'pigmeat' becomes 'ham' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'finally' indicates one should take the final letters.
The last letter of 'suffers' is 's'.
'ham'+'s'='hams'
'kin' placed around 'hams' is 'KHAMSIN'.

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(Another definition for khamsin that I've seen is " wind".)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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