Comment about one that’s gone to get source of water after pepper with food (4,3,8)

Guardian Cryptic #29168 | 1 Down | 2023-09-06
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

WELL (source of water) after HAIL (pepper, as with bullets, for instance) and FARE (food) The formal Roman address (Ave atque vale) to the dead, especially in a eulogy to a hero and the title of Catullus’ poem on the death of his brother I also found this in Wikipedia

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