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Food in pub for needy type? (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

beggar

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'needy type?' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?

'food in pub' is the wordplay.
'food' becomes 'egg' (egg is a kind of food).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'pub' becomes 'bar' (both are drinking establishments).
'egg' placed inside 'bar' is 'BEGGAR'.

'for' is the link.

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(Other definitions for beggar that I've seen before include "One pleading desperately" , "One lives by asking for money or food" , "One may entreat you" , "Pauper or supplicant" , "Solicitor" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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