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Meal for boxer? Not something that’s well done (4,9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

dogs breakfast

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'something that's well done' is the definition.
I know nothing about this answer so I cannot judge whether this works.

'meal for boxer? not' is the wordplay.
'meal' becomes 'breakfast' (breakfast is a kind of meal).
'for' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other) (I've seen this in other clues).
'boxer? not' becomes 'dogs' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'breakfast' put after 'dogs' is 'DOGS BREAKFAST'.

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(Other definitions for dogs breakfast that I've seen before include "Complete mess" , "Darkest of bags (anag)" , "Mess (served to Fido?)" , "Mess, shambles" , "Pig's ear" .)

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