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Biscuity food from first of restaurants overlooking Welsh river (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

rusk

'biscuity food' is the definition.
(rusk is a type of biscuit)

'first of restaurants overlooking welsh river' is the wordplay.
'first of restaurants' becomes 'r' (1st letter of 'restaurants').
'overlooking' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other) (in a down clue, some letters go above others).
'welsh river' becomes 'usk' (River Usk in Wales).
'r'+'usk'='RUSK'

'from' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for rusk that I've seen before include "Hard crisp baby food" , "cake" , "Small hard biscuit (for babies)" , "Bread baked for babies" , "in Bristol Channel" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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