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Single portion fills in snack in two sections (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

bipartite

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'single portion fills' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are adjectives. Perhaps there's an association between them I don't understand?

'in snack in two sections' is the wordplay.
'in' indicates putting letters inside.
'snack' becomes 'bite' (synonyms).
'in two sections' becomes 'parti' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'bite' enclosing 'parti' is 'BIPARTITE'.

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(Another definition for bipartite that I've seen is " Involving two sides".)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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