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Mistake about eating vegetable and fish (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

pilchards

'fish' is the definition.
(type of fish)

'mistake about eating vegetable' is the wordplay.
'mistake about' becomes 'pils' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'eating' indicates putting letters inside.
'vegetable' becomes 'chard' (chard is a kind of vegetable).
'pils' enclosing 'chard' is 'PILCHARDS'.

'and' acts as a link.

(Another definition for pilchards that I've seen is " Fish".)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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