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Fresh cigars initially taken from breadbasket (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

gastric

'from breadbasket' is the definition.
(breadbasket can informally mean stomach)

'fresh cigars initially taken' is the wordplay.
'fresh' is an anagram indicator.
'initially' suggests taking the first letters.
The first letter of 'taken' is 't'.
'cigars'+'t'='cigarst'
'cigarst' is an anagram of 'GASTRIC'.

(Other definitions for gastric that I've seen before include "touching stomach" , "Intestinal" , "Abdominal" , "Stomachic" , "affecting stomach" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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