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Boy consumes new peeled fruit served up daily (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

diurnal

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'daily' is the definition.
(synonyms)

'boy consumes new peeled fruit served up' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'boy' could be 'al' and 'al' is found in the answer.
'new' could be 'n' (common abbreviation eg NT for New Testament) and 'n' is present in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for diurnal that I've seen before include "I run lad in daily mode, not nocturnal" , "Active during the day" , "Occurring daily" , "Happening daily" , "Of the day, not the night" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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