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Trick turning over gigantic pastries? (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

stratagem

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'trick' is the definition.
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'turning over gigantic pastries?' is the wordplay.
'turning over' is a reversal indicator.
'gigantic' becomes 'mega' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'pastries?' becomes 'tarts' (tart is a kind of pastry).
'mega'+'tarts'='megatarts'
'megatarts' written backwards gives 'STRATAGEM'.

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(Other definitions for stratagem that I've seen before include "Ploy - start game (anag)" , "Manoeuvre - Ma's target (anag)" , "Start game with cunning plan" , "Scheme to outwit an opponent" , "Cunning manoeuvre" .)

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