The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word ROASTING
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result ROASTING
- Call to keep oven hot
- Curtailed tour with a rip-off rocket
- Cooking that brings severe reprimand
- Call about oven for cooking
- Stolen by gang, oven hot!
- Organist somehow dressing down
- Very hot kiln in shape of a circle
- Convert rags into carpeting
- Extremely hot organist needs to get jiggy
- Very hot cooker element includes oven
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The straight part
We know that "carpeting" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case carpeting = roasting.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does ROASTING mean?
ROASTING verb- To cook food by heating in an oven or over a fire without covering, resulting in a crisp, possibly even slightly charred appearance.
- To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.
- To process by drying through exposure to sun or artificial heat
- To heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn.
- To admonish someone vigorously
- To subject to bantering, severely criticize, sometimes as a comedy routine.
- To dissipate by heat the volatile parts of, as ores.
- The act by which something is roasted.
- A rebuke or reprimand (usually from the recipient's point of view).
- Very hot.