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Vagrant having minimum of food subsequently eating egg (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

floater

'vagrant' is the definition.
(I know that vagrant can be written as floater)

'minimum of food subsequently eating egg' is the wordplay.
'minimum of' says to take the initial letters.
'subsequently' becomes 'later' (subsequently means later on).
'eating' is an insertion indicator.
'egg' becomes 'o' (an 'o' resembles an egg).
The initial letter of 'food' is 'f'.
'later' placed around 'o' is 'loater'.
'f'+'loater'='FLOATER'

'having' acts as a link.

(Another definition for floater that I've seen is " Voter of unfixed allegiance".)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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