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We tucked into small serving of food like köttbullar? (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

swedish

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'food like kottbullar?' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this definition defines the answer.

'we tucked into small serving' is the wordplay.
'tucked into' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'small' becomes 's' (abbreviation - e.g. clothes size).
'serving' becomes 'dish' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
's'+'dish'='sdish'
'we' put inside 'sdish' is 'SWEDISH'.

'of' is the link.

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(Other definitions for swedish that I've seen before include "Nationality that swished around" , "A Scandinavian language" , "He saw Miss Degas (anag) -- Scandinavian body work" , "From Uppsala, perhaps" , "Soprano Jenny Lind, b. Stockholm 1798, d. Herefordshire 1887" .)

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