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A crop - it's exotic fruit (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

apricot

'fruit' is the definition.
(type of fruit)

'a crop it's exotic' is the wordplay.
'exotic' indicates an anagram (an unusual form of the letters).
'crop'+'it'='cropit'
'cropit' with letters rearranged gives 'pricot'.
'a'+'pricot'='APRICOT'

(Other definitions for apricot that I've seen before include "Fruit from a tropic" , "Yellow fruit" , "Stoned fruit" , "Orange-yellow fruit in plum family" , "Juicy fruit" .)

I've seen this clue in The Daily Express.
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