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Lettuce and tomato's opening price (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

cost

'price' is the definition.
(I know that price can be written as cost)

'lettuce and tomato's opening' is the wordplay.
'lettuce' becomes 'cos' (cos is a kind of lettuce).
'and' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'opening' indicates taking the first letters.
The first letter of 'tomatos' is 't'.
'cos'+'t'='COST'

(Other definitions for cost that I've seen before include "Come to" , "Charge" , "Amount to pay" , "Suffering" , "Outlay required to buy" .)

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