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Sea food that's spicy beginning to cook (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

baltic

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'sea' is the definition.
(Baltic is an example)

'food that's spicy beginning to cook' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'food' could be 'balti' (I've seen this before) and 'balti' is found in the answer.
A single letter 'c' remains which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for baltic that I've seen before include "Sea of northern Europe" , "Near land-locked sea of Scandinavia" , "North European sea" , "Coming from Tallinn, perhaps" , "Scandinavian sea" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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