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Tea ready — and one gets bread (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

chapati

'bread' is the definition.
(chapati is a kind of bread)

'tea ready and one' is the wordplay.
'tea' becomes 'cha' (cha is a type of tea).
'ready' becomes 'pat' (I've seen this in another clue).
'and' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'one' becomes 'i' (Roman numeral).
'cha'+'pat'+'i'='CHAPATI'

'gets' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for chapati that I've seen before include "Indian pancake" , "Piece of bread (Indian)" , "Unleavened bread of India" , "I may be taken in with Indian" , "What Indian waiter might bring" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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