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Given no option about a meal in the police canteen? (5-3)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

force-fed

'given no option about a meal' is the definition.
(given a meal against one's will)

'police canteen?' is the wordplay.
'police' becomes 'force' (the force can refer to the police force).
'canteen?' becomes 'fed' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'force'+'fed'='FORCE-FED'

'in the' is the link.

(Another definition for force-fed that I've seen is " Made to eat food".)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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