Runs inside to provide food in a bowl (6)
I believe the answer is:
crater
'a bowl' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'runs inside to provide food' is the wordplay.
'runs' becomes 'r' (cricket abbreviation).
'inside' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'to provide food' becomes 'cater' (I've seen this before).
'r' placed inside 'cater' is 'CRATER'.
'in' acts as a link.
(Other definitions for crater that I've seen before include "big hole" , "Bomb-hole" , "Volcanic cavity" , "Capital of Virginia" , "Caldera" .)