Cooking meat pie can be liberating (10)

I believe the answer is:

emancipate

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'be liberating' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this definition defines the answer.

'cooking meat pie can' is the wordplay.
'cooking' is an anagram indicator (cook can mean to falsify or distort).
'meat'+'pie'+'can'='meatpiecan'
'meatpiecan' with letters rearranged gives 'EMANCIPATE'.

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(Other definitions for emancipate that I've seen before include "Free from restrictions" , "Liberate" , "setting free" , "Set free" , "Free from slavery" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.

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