Stewed minced veg, topped and tailed, found everywhere (7)
I believe the answer is:
endemic
'stewed' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are adjectives. Perhaps you can see a link between them that I can't see?
'minced veg topped and tailed found everywhere' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
an anagram of 'minced' is 'ndemic' which is within the answer.
A single letter 'e' remains which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for endemic that I've seen before include "Belonging to a particular area" , "Disease found locally" , "Localised" , "(Of disease) widespread in an area" , "(Of disease) regularly found in population" .)