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Cover ripe bananas, then charge too much (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

overprice

'charge too much' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'cover ripe bananas' is the wordplay.
'bananas' indicates anagramming the letters (bananas can informally mean crazy).
'cover'+'ripe'='coverripe'
'coverripe' with letters rearranged gives 'OVERPRICE'.

'then' is the link.

(Other definitions for overprice that I've seen before include "Ask too much for (item)" , "Charge too much" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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