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Cooked up stew or fettucine (11)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

counterfeit

'cooked up' is the definition.
(cooked up can mean counterfeit or fake)

'stew or fettucine' is the wordplay.
'stew' indicates an anagram.
'or'+'fettucine'='orfettucine'
'orfettucine' is an anagram of 'COUNTERFEIT'.

(Other definitions for counterfeit that I've seen before include "Phoney" , "Sham, fake" , "Forge" , "Forged, false" , "copy" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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