Pasta shell abandoned by Russian wolfhound (4)

I believe the answer is:

orzo

'pasta' is the definition.
(orzo is a kind of pasta)

'shell abandoned by russian wolfhound' is the wordplay.
'shell abandoned by' says to take the centre (the outside letters form the word's shell).
'russian wolfhound' becomes 'borzoi' (borzoi is a breed of dog).
The middle of 'borzoi' is 'ORZO'.

(Another definition for orzo that I've seen is " Pasta".)

I've seen this clue in The Times.

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