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Study cafe and its cooking to take away (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

confiscate

'take away' is the definition.
(confiscating is a kind of taking away)

'study cafe and its cooking' is the wordplay.
'study' becomes 'con' (I've seen this before).
'and' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other) (I've seen this in other clues).
'cooking' indicates anagramming the letters.
'cafe' put after 'its' is 'itscafe'.
'itscafe' with letters rearranged gives 'fiscate'.
'con'+'fiscate'='CONFISCATE'

'to' is the link.

(Other definitions for confiscate that I've seen before include "Seize as penalty - facts on ice (anag)" , "Take away (property)" , "Impound" , "Take control of" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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