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What a scrounger may do to get cake (6)

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sponge

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'cake' is the definition.
(sponge cake is a kind of cake)

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(Other definitions for sponge that I've seen before include "Piece of porous rubber" , "Porous substance to soak up" , "Porous mass of fibres found in the ocean" , "Porous mass in oceans" , "No pegs on this substance to soak up" .)

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