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Wife has to eat again outside tent?

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I believe the answer is:

red wine

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'tent?' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I don't understand how one could define the other.

'wife has to eat again outside' is the wordplay.
'wife has' becomes 'w' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'to eat again' becomes 'redine' ('dine' is an answer for 'eat' so perhaps 'redine' is OK for 'eat again').
'outside' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'w' put within 'redine' is 'RED WINE'.

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(Other definitions for red wine that I've seen before include "Merlot or Malbec, say" , "Burgundy perhaps" , "Such as Shiraz or Merlot" , "Tent, say" , "Vin rouge, like claret" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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