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Skinless meat served in huge pot for gourmet (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

epicurean

'for gourmet' is the definition.
(synonyms)

'skinless meat served in huge pot' is the wordplay.
'skinless' means to look at the middle letters.
'served in' indicates putting letters inside.
'huge' becomes 'epic' (I've seen this in another clue).
'pot' becomes 'urn' (urn is a kind of pot).
The centre of 'meat' is 'ea'.
'epic'+'urn'='epicurn'
'ea' going into 'epicurn' is 'EPICUREAN'.

(Other definitions for epicurean that I've seen before include "advocate of enjoyment" , "Bon vivant" , "immoderate character" , "enjoyer of good food" , "one sensuous and Greek" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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