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Trumpet music is meat and drink to the enthusiast! (7)

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I believe the answer is:

fanfare

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'trumpet' is the definition.
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'drink to the enthusiast' is the wordplay.
'drink' becomes 'fare' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'to' means one lot of letters go next to another (I've seen this in other clues).
'the enthusiast' becomes 'fan' (fan is a kind of enthusiast).
'fare' after 'fan' is 'FANFARE'.

'music is meat and' acts as a link.
This may not be correct. Some or all of it may belong to another bit of the clue.

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(Other definitions for fanfare that I've seen before include "Ostentatious display" , "Flourish played at military Ceremonial" , "Flourish of trumpets" , "Enthusiastic display" , "A ceremonial blast of trumpets" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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