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Most elevating thing you can eat? (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

raisin

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'thing you can eat?' is the definition.
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'most elevating' is the wordplay.
'most' means to remove the last letter.
'elevating' becomes 'raising' (raising is a kind of elevating).
'raising' with its last letter removed is 'RAISIN'.

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(Other definitions for raisin that I've seen before include "A dried grape, nice in cake" , "Partially dried grape" , "An iris (anag)" , "Large dried grape" , "sultana, say" .)

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