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Where to buy lunch when the centre of the Ruhr follows a strange dialect (12)

Ross

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delicatessen

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(Other definitions for delicatessen that I've seen before include "Shop selling unusual or foreign prepared food" , "Rare food shop" , "food store?" , "Unusual foods here" , "where to get fare from abroad" .)

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