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Left food out for a natural emergency (5)

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I believe the answer is:

flood

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'a natural emergency' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both man-made objects as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps you can see a link between them that I don't see?

'left food out' is the wordplay.
'left' becomes 'L' (common abbreviation).
'out' indicates putting letters inside.
'l' going inside 'food' is 'FLOOD'.

'for' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for flood that I've seen before include "lot of water" , "Inundate" , "Oversupply" , "Spate" , "Inundation" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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