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Childish anger follows regular helpings of prunes (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

puerile

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'childish' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)

'anger follows regular helpings of prunes' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'anger' could be 'rile' (I've seen this before) and 'rile' is found within the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

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(Other definitions for puerile that I've seen before include "Childishly silly" , "Childishly stupid" , "Infantile" , "Childish, immature" , "Babyish" .)

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