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Age fuels changes in fighter's body (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

fuselage

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'fighter's body' is the definition.
'fuselage' can be an answer for 'body' (fuselage is a kind of body). I am not certain of the 'fighter's' bit.

'age fuels changes' is the wordplay.
'changes' is an anagram indicator.
'age'+'fuels'='agefuels'
'agefuels' with letters rearranged gives 'FUSELAGE'.

'in' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for fuselage that I've seen before include "Body of plane" , "part of aircraft" , "is often up in the air" , "Aircraft's body" , "part of plane" .)

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