Salad ingredient helping entertaining politician to lose weight finally (7)

From Times Cryptic 29573, 3D —

3D — Salad ingredient helping entertaining politician to lose weight finally (7) — RAMPION

  • Definition
    Definition found: 'Salad ingredient' — The first two words name an edible plant.
  • Indicator
    Indicator found: 'entertaining'
  • Operation
    'entertaining' signals a container operation
  • Fodder
    Fodder: 'helping politician'
  • Indicator
    Indicator found: 'to lose finally'
  • Operation
    'to lose finally' signals a deletion operation
  • Fodder
    Fodder: 'weight'
  • Synonym
    Synonyms spotted: 'helping' → RATION
  • Abbreviation
    Abbreviations spotted: 'politician' → MP
  • Assembly
    MP + (RATION - T > RAION) = RA(MP)ION

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