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Berks place meat lacking taste under cut vegetables (8,6)

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greenham common

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'berks' is the definition.
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'meat lacking taste under cut vegetables' is the wordplay.
'meat' becomes 'ham' (ham is a kind of meat).
'lacking taste' becomes 'common' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'under' means one lot of letters go next to another (in a down clue, some letters go below others).
'cut' means to remove the last letter.
'vegetables' becomes 'greens' (green is a kind of vegetable).
'greens' with its last letter taken away is 'green'.
'ham'+'common'='hamcommon'
'hamcommon' after 'green' is 'GREENHAM COMMON'.

'place' is the link.

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(Other definitions for greenham common that I've seen before include "Women would protest here" , "airfield" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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