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Nut cooking chips at Vigo regularly (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

pistachio

'nut' is the definition.
(I know that pistachio is a type of edible nut)

'cooking chips at vigo regularly' is the wordplay.
'cooking' is an anagram indicator (letters cooked up into a new form).
'regularly' indicates alternate letters (regularly take one letter, leave next etc.).
The alternate letters of 'vigo' are 'io'.
'chips'+'at'='chipsat'
'chipsat' is an anagram of 'pistach'.
'pistach'+'io'='PISTACHIO'

(Other definitions for pistachio that I've seen before include "Green nut" , "light green" , "Edible pale green seed" , "Greenish nut" , "Food" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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