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Food's beautiful, we hear (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

fare

'food's' is the definition.
(fare is a kind of food)

'beautiful we hear' is the wordplay.
'beautiful' becomes 'fair' ('fair' can be similar in meaning to 'beautiful').
'we hear' indicates a 'sounds like' (homophone) clue.
'fair' is a homophone of 'FARE'.

(Other definitions for fare that I've seen before include "diet" , "Food for the table" , "Food for the cost of a journey" , "Cost of travel" , "what the commuter will pay" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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