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Stomach tucking right in — cooked rice and something in curry sauce? (8)

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I believe the answer is:

turmeric

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'something in curry sauce?' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this definition defines the answer.

'stomach tucking right in cooked rice' is the wordplay.
'stomach' becomes 'tum' (synonyms).
'tucking right' becomes 'r' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'cooked' indicates anagramming the letters (letters cooked into a new form).
'tum' going around 'r' is 'turm'.
'rice' with letters rearranged gives 'eric'.
'turm'+'eric'='TURMERIC'

'and' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for turmeric that I've seen before include "kitchen ingredient" , "'Bright yellow powder, used in curry (8)'" , "Yellow aromatic powder used in cooking" , "Ingredient in curry powder" , "Yellow powder used in Indian cookery" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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