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Stir meal Mrs cooked (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

slammer

'stir' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'meal mrs cooked' is the wordplay.
'cooked' is an anagram indicator (letters cooked into a new form).
'meal'+'mrs'='mealmrs'
'mealmrs' anagrammed gives 'SLAMMER'.

(Other definitions for slammer that I've seen before include "One criticising, as it were" , "cocktail?" , "Prison (slang)" , "One severely criticises" , "One pulling off lots of tricks" .)

I've seen this clue in The Sun.
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