The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word BAKE
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result BAKE
- Cook from Derbyshire town, not well
- Fire assault rifle with live round
- Stop avoiding right work in kitchen?
- Cook returns from week abroad
- Some pleb, a keen cook
- Fire in home of tarts, well off
- Cook to stop, having lost start of recipe
- Couples in Barbie & Ken’s van get hot
- Poet dismissing learner as cook
- . Lately, sweetheart uses cocktail to cook
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The straight part
We know that "cook" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case cook = bake.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does BAKE mean?
BAKE noun- The act of cooking food by baking.
- Any of various baked dishes resembling casserole.
- A social event at which food (such as seafood) is baked, or at which baked food is served.
- (Barbadian, sometimes US and UK) A small, flat (or ball-shaped) cake of dough eaten in Barbados and sometimes elsewhere, similar in appearance and ingredients to a pancake but fried (or in some places sometimes roasted).
- Any item that is baked.
- (with person as subject) To cook (something) in an oven.
- (with baked thing as subject) To be cooked in an oven.
- To be warmed to drying and hardening.
- To dry by heat.
- To be hot.
- To cause to be hot.
- To smoke marijuana.
- To harden by cold.
- To fix (lighting, reflections, etc.) as part of the texture of an object to improve rendering performance.
- (with "in" or "into") To incorporate into something greater.