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Theme involves recipe for a certain degree of latitude? (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

tropic

'a certain degree of latitude?' is the definition.
(eg Tropic of Cancer is at a certain latitude)

'theme involves recipe' is the wordplay.
'theme' becomes 'topic' (synonyms).
'involves' is an insertion indicator.
'recipe' becomes 'r' (abbreviation).
'topic' going around 'r' is 'TROPIC'.

'for' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for tropic that I've seen before include "Particular latitude" , "Latitude associated with Capricorn or Cancer" , "eg Capricorn" , "One of two parallels of latitude" , "Capricorn, say" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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