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Warn maid with nosh cooked (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

admonish

'warn' is the definition.
(I know that warn can be written as admonish)

'maid with nosh cooked' is the wordplay.
'with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'cooked' indicates an anagram (letters cooked into a new form).
'maid' put after 'nosh' is 'noshmaid'.
'noshmaid' is an anagram of 'ADMONISH'.

(Other definitions for admonish that I've seen before include "Scold, wag the finger at" , "censure" , "Gently reprove" , "criticise" , "Warn sternly" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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