Sea food that's spicy beginning to cook (6)
I believe the answer is:
baltic
'sea' is the definition.
(Baltic is an example)
'food that's spicy beginning to cook' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'food' could be 'balti' (I've seen this before) and 'balti' is found in the answer.
A single letter 'c' remains which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for baltic that I've seen before include "Sea of northern Europe" , "Near land-locked sea of Scandinavia" , "North European sea" , "Coming from Tallinn, perhaps" , "Scandinavian sea" .)