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Pasta from European city isn't served up by Italian premier (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

rigatoni

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'pasta' is the definition.
(I know that rigatoni is a type of pasta)

'european city isn't served up by italian premier' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'city' could be 'riga' (Riga is an example) and 'riga' is located in the answer.
'italian' could be 'i' (abbreviation for Italian) and 'i' is located in the answer.
The remaining letters 'ton' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

'from' is the link.

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(Other definitions for rigatoni that I've seen before include "Pasta dish" , "Pasta - I got rain (anag)" , "Form of pasta" , "Short fluted tubes of pasta" , "Type of pasta" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.
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