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Crackers temporarily unavailable (3,2,5)

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I believe the answer is:

out to lunch

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

'temporarily unavailable' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'unavailable' could be 'out' (I've seen this in another clue) and 'out' is found in the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

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(Other definitions for out to lunch that I've seen before include "unhinged?" , "Getting fed up in office hours" , "having gone crazy" , "Slightly crazy - not eating in" , "unbalanced" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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