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Relaxed cooking the last of Chinese noodles (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

loosened

'relaxed' is the definition.
('loosen' can be a synonym of 'relax')

'cooking the last of chinese noodles' is the wordplay.
'cooking' indicates anagramming the letters.
'the last of' says to take the final letters.
The final letter of 'chinese' is 'e'.
'e'+'noodles'='enoodles'
'enoodles' anagrammed gives 'LOOSENED'.

(Another definition for loosened that I've seen is " Made slack, eased as with grip".)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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