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Eats in, when Des is out (5)

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I believe the answer is:

dines

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'eats' is the definition.
(dining is a kind of eating)

'when des is out' is the wordplay.
'when' becomes 'in' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'is out' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'in' inserted into 'des' is 'DINES'.

'in' acts as a link.

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(Another definition for dines that I've seen is " Eats".)

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