With greed, ekes out rice dishes (9)
I believe the answer is:
kedgerees
'rice dishes' is the definition.
'kedgerees' can be an answer for 'dishes' (kedgeree is a kind of dish). I am not sure about the 'rice' bit.
'with greed ekes out' is the wordplay.
'with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'out' indicates anagramming the letters (out can mean wrong or inaccurate).
'greed' put next to 'ekes' is 'greedekes'.
'greedekes' with letters rearranged gives 'KEDGEREES'.
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I've seen this clue in The Everyman puzzle in The Observer.
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