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Not very clean food to hand (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

grubby

'not very clean' is the definition.
(grubby means dirty or grimey)

'food to hand' is the wordplay.
'food' becomes 'grub' (grub is a kind of food).
'to hand' becomes 'by' (to hand can mean near by).
'grub'+'by'='GRUBBY'

(Other definitions for grubby that I've seen before include "Dirty or unwashed, as urchin may be" , "Dirty, could do with with a wash" , "Soiled" , "Dirty, grimy" , "Squalid" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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