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Chickenfeed with vegetable? Crazy! (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

peanuts

'chickenfeed' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'with vegetable? crazy' is the wordplay.
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'vegetable?' becomes 'pea' (pea is a kind of vegetable).
'crazy' becomes 'nuts' (I've seen this before).
'pea'+'nuts' is 'PEANUTS'.

(Other definitions for peanuts that I've seen before include "Cartoon strip; tiny sum" , "pittance" , "Schulz cartoon; trifling sum" , "Bits of food" , "Snack food - comic strip with Snoopy and Charlie Brown" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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