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Needs to get hot food

Ross

I believe the answer is:

hash

'food' is the definition.
(hash is a kind of food)

'needs to get hot' is the wordplay.
'needs' becomes 'has' ('have' can be a synonym of 'need').
'to get' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'hot' becomes 'h' (abbreviation eg on taps).
'has'+'h'='HASH'

(Other definitions for hash that I've seen before include "meat and potato dish" , "Recooked dish for shah" , "Meat dish; mess, jumble" , "Recooked dish - quite a jumble" , "Minced meat and vegetables - a mess!" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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