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Spooned jam scoffed by roguish individual (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

canoodled

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'spooned' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both to do with contact as well as being past participle verbs.
Perhaps you can see an association between them that I don't see?

'jam scoffed by roguish individual' is the wordplay.
'jam' becomes 'noodle' (both can mean to improvise musically).
'scoffed by' means one lot of letters goes inside another (scoff can mean to eat or consume).
'roguish individual' becomes 'cad' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'noodle' put inside 'cad' is 'CANOODLED'.

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