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Listless diner tasted ingredients (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

inert

'listless' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)

'diner tasted ingredients' is the wordplay.
'ingredients' indicates a hidden word (certain parts or ingredients from the clue).
'INERT' is hidden in the letters of 'diner tasted'.

(Other definitions for inert that I've seen before include "Torpid" , "Unreactive; still" , "Like e.g. xenon" , "Without the strength to move" , "Sluggish, inactive" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.
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