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Engineer eats last of canteen pap (7)

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I believe the answer is:

snapper

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'pap' is the definition.
(member of the paparazzi, someone who snaps photos)

'engineer eats last of canteen' is the wordplay.
'engineer' becomes 'sapper' (sapper is a kind of engineer).
'eats' indicates putting letters inside.
'last of canteen' becomes 'n' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'sapper' placed around 'n' is 'SNAPPER'.

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(Other definitions for snapper that I've seen before include "(Often red) food fish" , "Person photographing" , "Fish; marine turtle" , "sharp-toothed fish" , "Fish; photographer" .)

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