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French cooks? (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

fries

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'cooks?' is the definition.
(frying is a kind of cooking)

'french' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'french' could be 'fr' and 'fr' is found in the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

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(Other definitions for fries that I've seen before include "Cooks in fat" , "food for grazing?" , "Cooks; chips (Amer.)" .)

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