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Conservative into cake and hot bananas? (5)

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I believe the answer is:

bunch

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'conservative into cake and hot bananas?' is the definition.
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'conservative into cake and hot' is the wordplay.
'conservative' becomes 'C' (UK political abbreviation).
'into' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'cake' becomes 'bun' (I've seen this before).
'and' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'hot' becomes 'h' (abbreviation eg on taps).
'bun'+'h'='bunh'
'c' placed within 'bunh' is 'BUNCH'.

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(Other definitions for bunch that I've seen before include "Group of people (informal)" , "Grouping of a number of similar things" , "Posy (of picked flowers)" , "Small number of flowers tied together" , "Gang" .)

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