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Embellished being badly treated outside restaurant (11)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

illustrated

'embellished' is the definition.
(illustrating is a kind of embellishing)

'badly treated outside restaurant' is the wordplay.
'badly treated' becomes 'illused' (I've seen this before).
'outside' is an insertion indicator.
'restaurant' becomes 'trat' (I've seen this in other clues).
'illused' enclosing 'trat' is 'ILLUSTRATED'.

'being' acts as a link.

(Another definition for illustrated that I've seen is " With pictures".)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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