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Meal including fillets of tender fish (5)

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I believe the answer is:

tetra

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'fish' is the definition.
(tetra is a kind of fish)

'meal including fillets of tender' is the wordplay.
'meal' becomes 'tea' (tea is a kind of meal).
'including' is an insertion indicator.
'fillets of tender' becomes 'tr' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'tea' going around 'tr' is 'TETRA'.

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(Other definitions for tetra that I've seen before include "With four parts" , "Accosting and detaining (someone)" , "... Four < , in composition" , "rarely seen flower" , "Bright fish; four (prefix)" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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