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King fish served up with vegetable (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

leek

'vegetable' is the definition.
(leek is a kind of vegetable)

'king fish served up' is the wordplay.
'king' becomes 'k' (chess abbreviation).
'fish' becomes 'eel' (eel is a type of fish).
'served up' shows that the letters should be reversed in order (in a down clue, letters go up).
'k'+'eel'='keel'
'keel' reversed gives 'LEEK'.

'with' is the link.

(Other definitions for leek that I've seen before include "Eat the vegetable and keel over" , "Bulb" , "Welsh national symbol" , "what Fluellen wore in France?" , "Vegetable - Welsh emblem" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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