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What's been shot put in regular frying pan (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

skillet

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'frying pan' is the definition.
(I know that frying pan can be written as skillet)

'what's been shot put in regular' is the wordplay.
'what's been shot' becomes 'kill' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'put in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'regular' becomes 'set' (set can mean regular or fixed).
'kill' inserted into 'set' is 'SKILLET'.

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(Other definitions for skillet that I've seen before include "Small cooking pot" , "Metal cooking pot with long handle" , "Frying-pan" , "Small frying pan" , "Long-handled cooking pot" .)

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