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Bird’s extremely efficient food passage (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

gullet

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'food passage' is the definition.
'gullet' can be an answer for 'passage' (gullet is a kind of passage). I am not sure about the 'food' bit.

'bird's extremely efficient' is the wordplay.
'bird' becomes 'gull' (gull is a kind of bird).
'extremely' says to hollow out the word (remove centre letters).
'efficient' with its centre removed is 'et'.
'gull'+'et'='GULLET'

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(Other definitions for gullet that I've seen before include "Food-passage from mouth to stomach" , "part of canal" , "Food passage in the throat" , "Oesophagus" , "Food passage from mouth to stomach" .)

I've seen this clue in The Hindu.
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