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Perspire when cooking a stew (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

sweat

'perspire' is the definition.
(I know that perspire can be written as sweat)

'cooking a stew' is the wordplay.
'cooking' indicates an anagram (cook can mean to falsify or distort).
'a'+'stew'='astew'
'astew' with letters rearranged gives 'SWEAT'.

'when' is the link.

(Other definitions for sweat that I've seen before include "Male perspiration?" , "Soldier" , "Salty fluid secreted by glands" , "Toil" , "Waste (anag.)" .)

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