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Food no longer for the inner man? (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

pasta

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'food' is the definition.
(pasta is a kind of food)

'no longer for the inner man?' is the wordplay.
'no longer' becomes 'past'.
'for' says to put letters next to each other.
'the inner man?' becomes 'a' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'past'+'a'='PASTA'

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(Other definitions for pasta that I've seen before include "Plain food" , "Spaghetti, perhaps" , "Course of Italian" , "eg Tortellini" , "Italian foodstuff" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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