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Consumes escalope after turtle soup for starters (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

eats

'consumes' is the definition.
(eating is a kind of consuming)

'escalope after turtle soup for starters' is the wordplay.
'for starters' suggests taking the first letters.
The first letters of 'escalope after turtle soup' is 'EATS'.

(Other definitions for eats that I've seen before include "Grazes perhaps" , "Comestibles" , "Swallows food" , "Is not any faster" , "Ingests" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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