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Little money in France and here for food (4)

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soup

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'for food' is the definition.
(soup is a kind of food)

'little money in france and here' is the wordplay.
'little money in france' becomes 'sou' (historical French coin).
'and' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'here' becomes 'p' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'sou'+'p'='SOUP'

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(Other definitions for soup that I've seen before include "Eg, minestrone" , "liquid content in this food" , "Liquid - course" , "See 19" , "Photographic developer" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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