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Cooked patties to eat good, hot pasta (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

spaghetti

'pasta' is the definition.
(spaghetti is a kind of pasta)

'cooked patties to eat good hot' is the wordplay.
'cooked' indicates anagramming the letters.
'to eat' indicates putting letters inside.
'good' becomes 'g' (abbreviation).
'hot' becomes 'h'.
'patties' is an anagram of 'spaetti'.
'g'+'h'='gh'
'spaetti' going around 'gh' is 'SPAGHETTI'.

(Other definitions for spaghetti that I've seen before include "Strange tight peas for the Italian dish" , "Pasta - Birmingham's junction" , "course" , "meal" , "Variety of pasta" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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