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Food partly cooked during Prohibition? (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

bacon

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'food' is the definition.
(I know that bacon is a type of primal cut)

'partly cooked during prohibition?' is the wordplay.
'partly cooked' becomes 'co' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'during' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'prohibition?' becomes 'ban' (ban is a kind of prohibition).
'co' inserted into 'ban' is 'BACON'.

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(Other definitions for bacon that I've seen before include "sizzler" , "Salted and smoked pig meat" , "English philosopher, d.1626 - Irish painter, d. 1992" , "Old scientist" , "successfully brought home" .)

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