The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 plus 3 letter word COTTAGE PIE
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result COTTAGE PIE
- A short top, for example, rising on prize supper
- Fitting piece got at fare
- Simple supper: about time a piece got cooked
- Dish providing home with constant energy
- Stuffing mushroom too much, a gargantuan starter, that is, for dish
- Country house has good English minced beef and mash
- Cook got a piece to cover last of meat in dish
- Dish that’s epic cooked involves excessive time
- Get taco served with this dish?
- Fare traditionally served as ticket held in kind of poetic justice, ultimately
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The straight part
We know that "Something to eat" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case something to eat = cottage pie.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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