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Cooked veal and pork almost coincide (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

overlap

'coincide' is the definition.
(I know that overlap is a more specific form of the action coincide)

'cooked veal and pork almost' is the wordplay.
'cooked' indicates an anagram (letters cooked into a new form).
'and' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'almost' means to remove the last letter (most of the word but not all of it).
'pork' with its final letter removed is 'por'.
'veal' put after 'por' is 'porveal'.
'porveal' anagrammed gives 'OVERLAP'.

(Other definitions for overlap that I've seen before include "Extend over and cover a part of" , "Partly cover - a plover (anag)" , "Partly coincide in time, length etc" , "Partly coincide in time, area etc" , "Partially coincide" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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