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Mexican food: donkey fed with it (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

burrito

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'mexican food' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'donkey fed with it' is the wordplay.
'donkey fed' becomes 'burro' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'with' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'burro' going around 'it' is 'BURRITO'.

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(Other definitions for burrito that I've seen before include "Tortilla folded round a filling" , "Mexican dish of tortilla folded around a filling" , "Mexican dish - rub trio (anag)" , "Tortilla folded around a savoury filling" , "Filled tortilla dish" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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