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Asia's evergreen press chap left article (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

jambolan

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'asia's evergreen press' is the definition.
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'chap left article' is the wordplay.
'chap' becomes 'jambo' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'left' becomes 'l' (common abbreviation).
'article' becomes 'an' (indefinite article).
'jambo'+'l'+'an'='JAMBOLAN'

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