She's cooking in shopping centre dining room (4,4)
I believe the answer is:
mess hall
'dining room' is the definition.
(mess hall is a kind of dining room)
'she's cooking in shopping centre' is the wordplay.
'cooking' indicates an anagram (cook can mean to falsify or distort).
'in' is an insertion indicator.
'shopping centre' becomes 'mall' (a mall is a large shopping complex).
'shes' with letters rearranged gives 'essh'.
'essh' placed inside 'mall' is 'MESS HALL'.
(Another definition for mess hall that I've seen is " where soldiers eat".)
I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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