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Meal eight cooks fed to outsiders in Havana (4,3)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

high tea

'meal' is the definition.
(I know that high tea is a type of dinner)

'eight cooks fed to outsiders in havana' is the wordplay.
'cooks' indicates anagramming the letters.
'fed to' indicates putting letters inside.
'outsiders in' means to remove the middle letters.
'havana' with its centre removed is 'ha'.
'eight' with letters rearranged gives 'ighte'.
'ighte' placed into 'ha' is 'HIGH TEA'.

(Other definitions for high tea that I've seen before include "Late-afternoon meal" , "Late afternoon meal which includes a cooked dish" , "Early evening meal" , "Early-evening meal" , "A lofty kind of evening meal" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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