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One who assists eating English fare (9)

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passenger

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'fare' is the definition.
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'one who assists eating english' is the wordplay.
'one who assists' becomes 'passer' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'eating' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'english' becomes 'eng' (abbreviation).
'passer' enclosing 'eng' is 'PASSENGER'.

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(Other definitions for passenger that I've seen before include "One travelling" , "burden to the team" , "Rider" , "Traveller in a vehicle, not the driver" , "One on team doing little effective work" .)

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