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Some toast stunning defeat in study (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

crouton

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'some toast stunning' is the definition.
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'defeat in study' is the wordplay.
'defeat' becomes 'rout' (rout is a kind of defeat).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'study' becomes 'con' (conning is a kind of studying).
'rout' put into 'con' is 'CROUTON'.

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(Other definitions for crouton that I've seen before include "Small cube of toasted bread" , "One might be in the soup" , "little bit of bread" , "Fried bread as garnish" , "Small piece of toasted or fried bread served in soup" .)

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