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Reviewer is getting English roast (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

criticise

'roast' is the definition.
('roast'->'criticize' is in my internal thesaurus and 'ize'->'ise')

'reviewer is getting english' is the wordplay.
'reviewer' becomes 'critic' (I've seen this before).
'getting' says to put letters next to each other.
'english' becomes 'E' (abbreviation).
'critic'+'is'+'e'='CRITICISE'

(Other definitions for criticise that I've seen before include "Point out problems or mistakes" , "knock" , "Find fault" .)

I've seen this clue in The Mirror.
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