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Food shop to reproach lady removing contents on purpose (12)

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I believe the answer is:

deliberately

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'on purpose' is the definition.
(synonyms)

'food shop to reproach lady removing contents' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'food' could be 'e' (E is an example) and 'e' is found in the answer.
'shop' could be 'rat' (I've seen this in other clues) and 'rat' is found in the answer.
'lady' could be 'lib' and 'lib' is located in the answer.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for deliberately that I've seen before include "Consciously and intentionally" , "On purpose" , "as intended" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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