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Screen in restaurant on base (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

grille

'screen' is the definition.
(screen of bars which can be looked through)

'restaurant on base' is the wordplay.
'restaurant' becomes 'grill' (grill is a kind of restaurant).
'on' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'base' becomes 'e' (Euler's number - base of natural logarithms).
'grill'+'e'='GRILLE'

'in' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for grille that I've seen before include "It affords ventilation" , "Metal lattice-work" , "Partition" , "Part of an air-cooling system" , "Grating, metal screen" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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