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Meat jelly made with a non-Eastern spice (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

aspic

'meat jelly' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)

'a non-eastern spice' is the wordplay.
'non' is a deletion indicator.
'eastern' becomes 'e'.
'spice' with 'e' removed is 'spic'.
'a'+'spic'='ASPIC'

'made with' is the link.

(Other definitions for aspic that I've seen before include "Gelatin product" , "Edible jelly" , "Setter" , "Savoury jelly for coating meat, eggs etc" , "Savoury jelly used to coat eggs etc" .)

I've seen this clue in The Globe and Mail.
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