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Meat served in American flight mostly spoken about (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

salami

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'meat' is the definition.
(I know that salami is a type of banger)

'american flight mostly spoken about' is the wordplay.
'american flight' becomes 'lam' (lam is a kind of flight. I am not sure about the 'american' bit.).
'mostly' means to remove the last letter (most but not all of the word).
'spoken' becomes 'said' (said out loud).
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'said' with its last letter taken off is 'sai'.
'lam' going within 'sai' is 'SALAMI'.

'served in' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for salami that I've seen before include "Highly-spiced sausage" , "Food" , "Highly spiced sausage" , "Savoury snack" , "Italian sausage (a kind of tactics?)" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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