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Sounding healthy, vegetable chopped for tea? (5,3)

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rosie lee

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'sounding healthy vegetable chopped for tea?' is the definition.
The definition suggests a singular noun which matches the answer.

'vegetable chopped for tea?' is the wordplay.
'vegetable' becomes 'leek' (leek is a kind of vegetable).
'chopped' means to remove the last letter (the final letter is chopped off).
'for' means one lot of letters go next to another (I've seen this in other clues).
'tea?' becomes 'rosie' (I've seen this before).
'leek' with its last letter taken away is 'lee'.
'lee' after 'rosie' is 'ROSIE LEE'.

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(Other definitions for rosie lee that I've seen before include "drink" , "Tea (rhyming slang)" , "Cockney tea" , "Char" , "lady" .)

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