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The endlessly good cooked meal (3,3)

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I believe the answer is:

hot dog

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'meal' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are singular nouns.
Maybe they are linked in a way I don't understand?

'the endlessly good cooked' is the wordplay.
'endlessly' means to remove the last letter.
'cooked' indicates an anagram (letters cooked into a new form).
'the' with its last letter taken off is 'th'.
'th'+'good'='thgood'
'thgood' anagrammed gives 'HOT-DOG'.

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(Other definitions for hot dog that I've seen before include "food from a stand?" , "Sausage in a bap" , "Sausage in bread roll for thermal canine" , "Meat in roll" , "Sausage sandwich - acrobatic skier" .)

I've seen this clue in The Sun.
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