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Eating nothing, following a painful little wound (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

fasting

'eating nothing' is the definition.

'following a painful little wound' is the wordplay.
'following' becomes 'f' (used when citing page numbers etc).
'painful little wound' becomes 'sting'.
'f'+'a'+'sting'='FASTING'

(Other definitions for fasting that I've seen before include "not eating" , "Going without food" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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