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Food bound to be consumed by traveller under pressure (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

provender

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'traveller under pressure' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this definition defines the answer.

'food bound to be consumed' is the wordplay.
'food bound' becomes 'prover' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'to be' becomes 'end' (ending is a kind of being).
'consumed' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'prover' placed around 'end' is 'PROVENDER'.

'by' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for provender that I've seen before include "Dry feed" , "Dry food for beasts" , "animal feed" , "Animal fodder" .)

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