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Oriental ate out and had a banquet (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

feasted

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'had a banquet' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both related to consumption as well as being past participle verbs.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I don't see?

'oriental ate out' is the wordplay.
'oriental' becomes 'east' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'ate' becomes 'fed' ('feed' can be a synonym of 'eat').
'out' is an insertion indicator.
'east' going into 'fed' is 'FEASTED'.

'and' is the link.

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(Other definitions for feasted that I've seen before include "Ate lavishly" , "Banqueted" , "Ate high off the hog" , "Had a lot to eat" .)

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