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Eat dry mix prepared for stuffing (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

taxidermy

'stuffing' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'eat dry mix prepared' is the wordplay.
'prepared' indicates an anagram.
'eat'+'dry'+'mix'='eatdrymix'
'eatdrymix' is an anagram of 'TAXIDERMY'.

'for' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for taxidermy that I've seen before include "The art of stuffing and mounting animal skins" , "special stuffing" , "Mounting horses" , "Stuffing practice" , "preservation process" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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