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Reportedly purchase most of the food easily (2,3)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

by far

'easily' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'reportedly purchase most of the food' is the wordplay.
'reportedly' indicates a 'sounds like' (homophone) clue.
'purchase' becomes 'buy' (buy is a kind of purchase).
'most of' means to remove the last letter.
'the food' becomes 'fare' (fare is a kind of food).
'buy' is a homophone of 'by'.
'fare' with its last letter taken away is 'far'.
'by'+'far'='BY FAR'

(Other definitions for by far that I've seen before include "easily" , "To a superlative extent" , "Very much" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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