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It's nothing for wild bees to be very plump (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

obese

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'very plump' is the definition.
'obese' can be an answer for 'plump' (thesaurus). I am not certain of the 'very' bit.

'it's nothing for wild bees' is the wordplay.
'it's nothing' becomes 'o' (looks like zero - 0).
'for' says to put letters next to each other.
'wild' indicates anagramming the letters.
'bees' is an anagram of 'bese'.
'o'+'bese'='OBESE'

'to be' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for obese that I've seen before include "having generous corporation" , "Grossly overweight" , "Enormously portly" , "Unusually fat" , "Falstaffian" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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