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Eating large, square meal, that's fine (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

flour

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'meal that's fine' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this defines the answer.

'eating large square' is the wordplay.
'eating' indicates putting letters inside.
'large' becomes 'L' (eg in clothes sizes).
'square' becomes 'four' (four is a square number).
'l' going into 'four' is 'FLOUR'.

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(Other definitions for flour that I've seen before include "Ground and sifted cereal grain meal" , "Fine-ground grain" , "Miller's product" , "Powdered grain" , "Delivery from miller" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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