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Shop needs elastic pants? (12)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

delicatessen

'shop' is the definition.
(delicatessen is a kind of shop)

'needs elastic pants?' is the wordplay.
'pants?' indicates anagramming the letters (UK informal term for 'nonsense' or 'rubbish').
'needs'+'elastic'='needselastic'
'needselastic' anagrammed gives 'DELICATESSEN'.

(Other definitions for delicatessen that I've seen before include "Fine foods shop" , "Seller of fine foods" , "Rare food shop" , "Shop selling unusual or foreign prepared food" , "food store?" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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