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I'm going to entertain artist with Indian spices for dip (12)

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I believe the answer is:

taramasalata

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'dip' is the definition.
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'i'm going to entertain artist with indian spices' is the wordplay.
'i'm going to' becomes 'tata' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'entertain' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'artist' becomes 'RA' (Royal Academician, member of Royal Academy of Arts).
'with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'indian spices' becomes 'masala' (spice mixture in Indian cooking).
'ra'+'masala'='ramasala'
'tata' placed around 'ramasala' is 'TARAMASALATA'.

'for' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for taramasalata that I've seen before include "Fish roe dip" , "Greek dish of pink roe" , "Greek fish pate or dip" , "Pink Greek food" , "spread" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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