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The old governor put one in a dish (6)

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I believe the answer is:

pilate

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'the old governor' is the definition.
'Pilate' can be an answer for 'governor' (Pontius Pilate, Roman governor in Christ's time). I'm not certain of the 'the old' bit.

'one in a dish' is the wordplay.
'one' becomes 'lat' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'in' is an insertion indicator.
'a dish' becomes 'pie' (I've seen this before).
'lat' put into 'pie' is 'PILATE'.

'put' is the link.

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(Other definitions for pilate that I've seen before include "famous old judge" , "Roman governor" , "Magistrate passing death sentence" , "What is truth?, he famously asked" , "Hand-washing Biblical judge" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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