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Made stink collaring waiter finally having forks (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

pronged

'having forks' is the definition.
(forks have prongs)

'made stink collaring waiter finally' is the wordplay.
'made stink' becomes 'ponged' (to pong is to smell very bad).
'collaring' indicates putting letters inside.
'finally' indicates one should take the final letters.
The final letter of 'waiter' is 'r'.
'ponged' going around 'r' is 'PRONGED'.

(Another definition for pronged that I've seen is " Like a fork".)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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