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Starting to serve a boy's dish (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

salad

'dish' is the definition.
(salad is a kind of dish)

'starting to serve a boy's' is the wordplay.
'starting to' says to take the initial letters.
'boy' becomes 'lad' (informal term for boy).
The first letter of 'serve' is 's'.
's'+'a'+'lad'='SALAD'

(Other definitions for salad that I've seen before include "Healthy dish" , "one gets dressed" , "One may well be green" , "Raw, green, veg" , "Cold dish of various vegetables," .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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