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Hot sauce ordeal in mess on island: Tees hardly sated? (1,5,3,1,5)

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I believe the answer is:

i could eat a horse

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'tees hardly sated?' is the definition.
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'hot sauce ordeal in mess on island' is the wordplay.
'in mess' is an anagram indicator.
'on' says to put letters next to each other.
'island' becomes 'i' (geographical abbreviation).
'hot'+'sauce'+'ordeal'='hotsauceordeal'
'hotsauceordeal' with letters rearranged gives 'couldeatahorse'.
'couldeatahorse' after 'i' is 'I COULD EAT A HORSE'.

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