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No place to serve the food? Remarkable! (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

notable

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'remarkable' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'no place to serve the food?' is the wordplay.
'no' becomes 'n' (common abbreviation).
'place' is an anagram indicator (I've seen 'placed' mean this (placing the letters)).
'serve the food?' becomes 'able' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'to' is an anagram of 'ot'.
'n'+'ot'+'able'='NOTABLE'

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(Other definitions for notable that I've seen before include "Ton bale (anag.)" , "Big noise" , "Significant or distinguished" , "celebrity" , "Prominent" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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