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Dried beef, cocoa, regularly, for girl (7)

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I believe the answer is:

rebecca

'girl' is the definition.

'dried beef cocoa regularly' is the wordplay.
'regularly' means one should take alternating letters (regularly take one letter, leave next etc.).
'dried'+'beef'+'cocoa'='driedbeefcocoa'
The alternate letters of 'driedbeefcocoa' are 'REBECCA'.

'for' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for rebecca that I've seen before include "Maxim she betrayed" , "Literary heroine" , "She married Maxim first" , "Du Maurier novel - Hitchcock thriller" , "Isaac's wife" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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