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Free beers and foods? Easy street! (3,2,5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

bed of roses

'easy street' is the definition.
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'free beers and foods?' is the wordplay.
'free' indicates anagramming the letters.
'and' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'beers'+'foods'='beersfoods'
'beersfoods' anagrammed gives 'BED OF ROSES'.

(Other definitions for bed of roses that I've seen before include "Extremely comfortable situation" , "Agreeable situation" , "tea garden?" , "thorny position?" , "Pleasant situation" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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