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All the broken stone that goes into concrete (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

aggregate

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'all the broken stone that goes into concrete' is the definition.
'aggregate' can be an answer for 'all' (thesaurus). I am unsure of the rest of the definition.

'all the broken stone' is the wordplay.
'all' becomes 'greg' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'the broken' indicates putting letters inside (inserted letters break into others).
'stone' becomes 'agate' (agate is a type of stone).
'greg' going inside 'agate' is 'AGGREGATE'.

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(Other definitions for aggregate that I've seen before include "Combined or total amount" , "Sum of many heterogenous things taken together" , "Solid rock" , "Combine into a whole" , "Get garage to do sum" .)

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