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Remove hair from pie cooked near the end of the night (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

epilate

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'remove hair from' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'pie cooked near the end of the night' is the wordplay.
'cooked' indicates an anagram.
'near the' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'end of the night' becomes 'late' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'pie' with letters rearranged gives 'epi'.
'epi'+'late'='EPILATE'

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(Other definitions for epilate that I've seen before include "Shave" , "Pull out hair" , "Remove hair by the roots" .)

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