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Roast meat put with reduced wine (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

lambast

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

'meat put with reduced wine' is the wordplay.
'meat' becomes 'lamb' (lamb is a type of meat).
'put with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'reduced' means to remove the last letter.
'wine' becomes 'asti' (Italian wine).
'asti' with its last letter removed is 'ast'.
'lamb'+'ast'='LAMBAST'

(Other definitions for lambast that I've seen before include "Thrash" , "Be harsh critic of" , "Berate" , "Bash" , "Reprimand" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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