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Bone to pick with vegan rice dish (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

grievance

'bone to pick' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'with vegan rice dish' is the wordplay.
'with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'dish' indicates anagramming the letters (dish can informally mean to destroy).
'vegan' next to 'rice' is 'veganrice'.
'veganrice' with letters rearranged gives 'GRIEVANCE'.

(Other definitions for grievance that I've seen before include "beef" , "gripe" , "Item causing resentment" , "Reason for dissatisfaction" , "Bad feeling" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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