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Cut-price vegetarian food (3)

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I believe the answer is:

cos

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'vegetarian food' is the definition.
'cos' can be an answer for 'food' (I have seen 'healthy food' mean 'cos' so perhaps 'food' could also mean 'cos'). I am unsure of the 'vegetarian' bit.

'cut-price' is the wordplay.
'cut' means to remove the last letter.
'price' becomes 'cost' (synonyms).
'cost' with its last letter removed is 'COS'.

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(Other definitions for cos that I've seen before include "Salad plant" , "Mozart fidelity-test opera" , "Kind of lettuce in microcosm" , "in the Dodecanese?" , "Senior officers" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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