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After exercise, painful, take top off lotion for such lovely skin (7,3,5)

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I believe the answer is:

peaches and cream

'such lovely skin' is the definition.
(phrase informally describing a pleasant complexion)

'after exercise painful take top off lotion' is the wordplay.
'after' says to put letters next to each other.
'exercise' becomes 'pe' (Physical Education).
'painful' becomes 'ache' (I've seen this before).
'take top off' becomes 'sand' (as in sanding a layer off something).
'lotion' becomes 'cream'.
'pe' next to 'ache' is 'peache'.
'peache'+'sand'+'cream'='PEACHES AND CREAM'

'for' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for peaches and cream that I've seen before include "sort of complexion" , "Sweet" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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