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Gruel for the airsick? (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

skilly

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'gruel' is the definition.
(I know that skilly is a type of gruel)

'airsick?' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'airsick?' could be 'ill' ('ill' can be similar in meaning to 'airsick') and 'ill' is found in the answer.
The remaining letters 'sky' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

'for the' is the link.

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(Other definitions for skilly that I've seen before include "some soup" , "Thin gruel" .)

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