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A largely noisy director with love for green food (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

avocado

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'green food' is the definition.
'avocado' can be an answer for 'green' (shade of green). I am not sure about the 'food' bit.

'a largely noisy director with love for' is the wordplay.
'largely' means to remove the last letter.
'noisy' becomes 'vocal'.
'director' becomes 'd'.
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'love for' becomes 'o' (I've seen this in other clues).
'vocal' with its last letter taken away is 'voca'.
'a'+'voca'+'d'+'o'='AVOCADO'

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(Other definitions for avocado that I've seen before include "Green - fruit eaten as a vegetable" , "Blackish- or yellowish-green colour" , "Tropical fruit with a yellow creamy flesh" , "Alligator pear" , "may be stoned" .)

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