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Start to eat: more ginger brought round for creature (3,4)

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I believe the answer is:

red deer

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'creature' is the definition.
(type of animal)

'start to eat more ginger brought round' is the wordplay.
'start to' suggests taking the first letters.
'more ginger' becomes 'redder' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'brought round' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
The first letter of 'eat' is 'e'.
'e' going inside 'redder' is 'RED DEER'.

'for' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for red deer that I've seen before include "source of venison" , "Large animal native to the British Isles" , "Large cervine animal" , "Common European and Asian hoofed grazing animals" , "Does perhaps" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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