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Animal eating right chicken part (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

breast

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'chicken part' is the definition.
('breast' is part of 'chicken')

'animal eating right' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'right' could be 'r' (common abbreviation) and 'r' is present in the answer.
'animal' could be 'beast' (synonyms) and 'beast' is found in the remaining letters.
No letters remain.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for breast that I've seen before include "Invalid's helper" , "Part of a jacket" , "Milk producer" , "Front of the trunk" , "flesh" .)

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