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Relatives cooked tuna with salt (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

aunts

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'relatives' is the definition.
(aunt is a kind of relative)

'cooked tuna with salt' is the wordplay.
'cooked' indicates an anagram (letters cooked into a new form).
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'salt' becomes 's' (this might be a standard abbreviation of which I'm unaware).
'tuna' anagrammed gives 'aunt'.
'aunt'+'s'='AUNTS'

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(Other definitions for aunts that I've seen before include "Sally and others" , "Female relatives, usually older" , "Parents' sisters" , "Elderly female relations" , "relatively speaking" .)

I've seen this clue in The Sun.
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