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Samuel saves pence for tinned meat (4)

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spam

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'for tinned meat' is the definition.
(tinned meat product)

'samuel saves pence' is the wordplay.
'samuel' becomes 'sam' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'saves' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'pence' becomes 'p'.
'sam' going around 'p' is 'SPAM'.

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(Other definitions for spam that I've seen before include "Tinned meat - unwanted email" , "Thoughtlessly send" , "Unwanted e-mails" , "(Send) junk mail" , "Uninvited email" .)

I've seen this clue in The Sun.
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