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Some hot concoction to start with that's tasty (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

toothsome

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'tasty' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'some hot concoction to start with that's' is the wordplay.
'concoction' indicates an anagram.
'to start' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'that' becomes 'to' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'hot' with letters rearranged gives 'oth'.
'some' after 'oth' is 'othsome'.
'othsome' put after 'to' is 'TOOTHSOME'.

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(Other definitions for toothsome that I've seen before include "It's just like a T-Rex" , "Inviting" , "attractive" , "Pleasing" , "Temptingly tasty" .)

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