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Reduced price for lettuce (3)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

cos

'lettuce' is the definition.
(cos lettuce is a kind of lettuce)

'reduced price' is the wordplay.
'reduced' means to remove the last letter.
'price' becomes 'cost' ('cost' can be a synonym of 'price').
'cost' with its final letter removed is 'COS'.

'for' is the link.

(Other definitions for cos that I've seen before include "Chief of Staff" , "vegetable?" , "in the Dodecanese?" , "foreign island" , "naturally having longer leaves than most" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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