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Talked of having a pancake for the grand finale (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

waffled

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'talked of' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both to do with communicating as well as being past participle verbs.
Perhaps there's a link between them I don't understand?

'a pancake for the grand finale' is the wordplay.
'a pancake' becomes 'waffle' (I've seen this before).
'for' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'the grand finale' becomes 'd' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'waffle'+'d'='WAFFLED'

'having' is the link.

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(Another definition for waffled that I've seen is " Vacillated".)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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