Getting hold of recipe, magistrate fixed a meal (9)

Independent Cryptic #10874 | 9 Across | 2021-08-19
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

BEAK (slightly old-fashioned slang for magistrate, schoolmaster, or similar authority figure) containing (getting hold of) R (abbreviation for Latin recipe = take, in medicine formulations), then FAST (fixed, as in “stuck fast”).

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