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Unmarried cook I named (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

maiden

'unmarried' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)

'cook i named' is the wordplay.
'cook' is an anagram indicator.
'i'+'named'='inamed'
'inamed' is an anagram of 'MAIDEN'.

(Other definitions for maiden that I've seen before include "Dotty over" , "Earliest - unmarried" , "First (speech)" , "clothes horse" , "Girl; kind of over" .)

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