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Great passion consuming sweets after a turnover? (5-4)

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I believe the answer is:

first-rate

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'great' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'consuming sweets after a turnover?' is the wordplay.
'consuming' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'sweets' becomes 'irst' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'a turnover?' indicates an anagram (I've seen 'turnover' mean this).
'after' with letters rearranged gives 'frate'.
'irst' going into 'frate' is 'FIRST-RATE'.

'passion' is the link.
I am not very happy about this link. It may belong to another bit of the clue.

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(Other definitions for first-rate that I've seen before include "Prime" , "Start fire to be really excellent" , "Of the highest excellence" , "Top-class, excellent" , "Top-notch, excellent" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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