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Exotic food brings celebrity benefit (9)

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starfruit

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'exotic food' is the definition.
I know nothing about this answer so I cannot tell whether it can be defined by this definition.

'celebrity benefit' is the wordplay.
'celebrity' becomes 'star' (a star is a celebrity or famous person).
'benefit' becomes 'fruit' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'star'+'fruit'='STARFRUIT'

'brings' acts as a link.

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