Nasty about Times section for food (7)

I believe the answer is:

vittles

'food' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'nasty about times section' is the wordplay.
'nasty' becomes 'vile' ('vile' can be a synonym of 'nasty'**).
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'times' becomes 'tt' (two abbreviations for time).
'section' becomes 's' (legal abbreviation).
'vile' going around 'tt' is 'vittle'.
'vittle'+'s'='VITTLES'

'for' is the link.

I've seen this clue in The Independent.

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