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Sausage, unfinished slice and port, imbibing last of fizz (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

chorizo

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'sausage' is the definition.
(type of sausage)

'unfinished slice and port imbibing last of fizz' is the wordplay.
'unfinished slice' becomes 'cho' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'and' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'port' becomes 'rio' (Rio de Janeiro is a port).
'imbibing' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'last of' says to take the final letters.
The final letter of 'fizz' is 'z'.
'rio' enclosing 'z' is 'rizo'.
'cho'+'rizo'='CHORIZO'

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(Other definitions for chorizo that I've seen before include "Highly seasoned sausage" , "foreign meat" , "Spiced sausage" , "Spicy Spanish meat product" , "Spicy Spanish pork sausage" .)

I've seen this clue in The Everyman puzzle in The Observer.
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