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Snakes cooked in pasta (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

taipans

'snakes' is the definition.
(taipan is a kind of snake)

'cooked in pasta' is the wordplay.
'cooked' indicates anagramming the letters (letters cooked into a new form).
'in'+'pasta'='inpasta'
'inpasta' is an anagram of 'TAIPANS'.

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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