Given duty, sort of chef is up and working (10)

Guardian Cryptic #29208 | 5 Down | 2023-10-23
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

A charade of COMMIIS (‘sort of chef’, an assistant) plus SI, a reversal (‘up’ in a down light) of ‘is’ plus ON (‘working’). ‘Given’ as an adjective in the definition.

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