Teased but cooked meat? (7)
I believe the answer is:
roasted
'teased' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are adjectives. Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?
'cooked meat?' is the wordplay.
'cooked' becomes 'roast' (similar in meaning).
'meat?' becomes 'ed' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'roast'+'ed'='ROASTED'
'but' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for roasted that I've seen before include "Cooked (like a joint)" , "Cooked (like chestnuts)" , "Cooked (turkey?)" , "Carpeted" , "Cooked by dry heat in an oven" .)