Foods containing large excesses of water (6)
I believe the answer is:
floods
'excesses of water' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both acts as well as being plural nouns.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?
'foods containing large' is the wordplay.
'containing' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'large' becomes 'L' (eg in clothes sizes).
'foods' going around 'l' is 'FLOODS'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for floods that I've seen before include "Large flows of water" , "Deluges" , "Inundates" .)