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Unusual pastry, split evenly by calorie (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

atypical

'unusual' is the definition.
(synonyms)

'pastry split evenly by calorie' is the wordplay.
'evenly' indicates alternate letters (the letters in even-numbered positions).
'by' says to put letters next to each other.
'calorie' becomes 'cal'.
'pastry'+'split'='pastrysplit'
The alternating letters of 'pastrysplit' are 'atypi'.
'atypi'+'cal'='ATYPICAL'

(Other definitions for atypical that I've seen before include "Not as expected" , "Not conforming to a norm or average" , "'Abnormal, aberrant (8)'" , "Abnormal, aberrent." , "Odd" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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