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Pastry made by martial artist is hot (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

danish

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'pastry' is the definition.
(I know that Danish is a type of pastry)

'martial artist is hot' is the wordplay.
'martial artist' becomes 'dan' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'hot' becomes 'h' (abbreviation eg on taps).
'dan'+'is'+'h'='DANISH'

'made by' is the link.

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(Other definitions for danish that I've seen before include "Had sin (anag)" , "Flat cake - and party's his! (anag)" , "Word linking blue and pastry" , "A blue cheese; a pastry" , "Scandinavian language" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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