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Powdered grain, egg and meat cooking inside of hall (7)

Ross

I think it could be either:

oatmeal

outsell

'powdered grain' is the definition.

'egg and meat cooking inside of hall' is the wordplay.
'egg' becomes 'o' (I've seen this in other clues).
'and' says to put letters next to each other.
'cooking' indicates anagramming the letters.
'inside of' means to look at the middle letters.
The centre of 'hall' is 'al'.
'meat' with letters rearranged gives 'atme'.
'o'+'atme'+'al'='OATMEAL'

(Other definitions for oatmeal that I've seen before include "It's boiled for porridge" , "The stuff porridge is made from" , "AA Motel (anag.)" , "Source of biscuits" , "Colour - to a male (anag)" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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