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Given food by a fat-headed fellow (3)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

fed

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'given food' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)

'by a fat-headed fellow' is the wordplay.
'by' says to put letters next to each other.
'a fat-headed' becomes 'f' (this could be a standard abbreviation I've not previously seen).
'fellow' becomes 'ed' (I've seen this in other clues).
'f'+'ed' is 'FED'.

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(Other definitions for fed that I've seen before include "US agent" , "Given sustenance" , "Dished up food" , "Provided food for" , "Provided courses" .)

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