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Meat jelly with a reduced flavour (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

aspic

'meat jelly' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'a reduced flavour' is the wordplay.
'reduced' means to remove the last letter.
'flavour' becomes 'spice' (spicing is a kind of flavouring).
'spice' with its last letter removed is 'spic'.
'a'+'spic'='ASPIC'

'with' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for aspic that I've seen before include "that's clear?" , "Preservative jelly" , "Setter" , "Jelly based on fish or meat stock" , "Savoury jelly for coating meats and eggs" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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