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Bananas aren't nice fruit (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

nectarine

'fruit' is the definition.
(nectarine is a kind of fruit)

'bananas aren't nice' is the wordplay.
'bananas' indicates anagramming the letters (bananas can informally mean crazy).
'arent'+'nice'='arentnice'
'arentnice' anagrammed gives 'NECTARINE'.

(Other definitions for nectarine that I've seen before include "Kind of peach with thin skin and no down" , "Trace nine to a kind of peach" , "Smooth-skinned fruit" , "Entrance I make with thin-skinned peach" , "type of tree" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times and The Independent.
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