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A serious drunk devouring five sausage rolls? (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

savouries

'sausage rolls?' is the definition.
(sausage rolls are savoury items)

'a serious drunk devouring five' is the wordplay.
'drunk' indicates an anagram.
'devouring' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'five' becomes 'V' (Roman numeral).
'a'+'serious'='aserious'
'aserious' anagrammed gives 'saouries'.
'saouries' enclosing 'v' is 'SAVOURIES'.

(Another definition for savouries that I've seen is " Hors d'oeuvres, not sweets".)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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