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Diet also poor in lonely place (8)

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I believe the answer is:

isolated

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'diet also poor in lonely place' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are adjectives. Perhaps you can see a link between them that I don't see?

'diet also poor' is the wordplay.
'poor' indicates an anagram.
'diet'+'also'='dietalso'
'dietalso' anagrammed gives 'ISOLATED'.

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(Other definitions for isolated that I've seen before include "Remote; lonely" , "Quarantined, alone" , "Remote, set apart" , "Alone, set apart" , "Cut off or left behind" .)

I've seen this clue in The Sun.
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