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First slice of silverside in a tin should be examined closely (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

scanned

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

'first slice of silverside in a tin' is the wordplay.
'first' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'slice of' says to take the initial letters (only a small slice of the word).
'in a tin' becomes 'canned' (I've seen this before).
The initial letter of 'silverside' is 's'.
's'+'canned' is 'SCANNED'.

'should be' is the link.

(Other definitions for scanned that I've seen before include "Thoroughly examined" , "Glanced over" , "given thorough examination" , "examined closely" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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