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Naturally a crow may carry on eating it (7)

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I believe the answer is:

carrion

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'it' is the definition.
The definition suggests a singular noun which matches the answer.

'naturally a crow may carry on eating' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'a' is present in the answer.
'on' is present in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for carrion that I've seen before include "Rotting dead body of an animal" , "Decaying animal flesh" , "rotten" , "Dead flesh (for e.g. crow)" , "Dead flesh for food" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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