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Closely examine peculiar shelled jellybean (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

eyeball

'closely examine' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'peculiar shelled jellybean' is the wordplay.
'peculiar' indicates an anagram (a peculiar or strange ordering of the letters).
'shelled' says to take the centre (the outer letters or shell are removed).
The central letters of 'jellybean' are 'ellybea'.
'ellybea' with letters rearranged gives 'EYEBALL'.

(Other definitions for eyeball that I've seen before include "It was cut in Un Chien Andalou" , "making us stare" , "Ocular orb" , "something in orbit" , "Observe closely" .)

I've seen this clue in The Everyman puzzle in The Observer.
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