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Fish sauce over leafy vegetable (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

pilchard

'fish' is the definition.
(pilchard is a kind of fish)

'sauce over leafy vegetable' is the wordplay.
'sauce' becomes 'lip' (I've seen this before).
'over' is a reversal indicator.
'leafy vegetable' becomes 'chard' (chard is a kind of leafy vegetable).
'lip' reversed gives 'pil'.
'pil'+'chard'='PILCHARD'

(Other definitions for pilchard that I've seen before include "Fish of herring family" , "'Small fatty fish, usually canned (8)'" , "Edible herring relative" , "Small marine food fish" , "type of fish" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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