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Crop tail, suffering in such heat (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

tropical

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'such heat' is the definition.
The definition and answer are not the same part of speech.

'crop tail suffering' is the wordplay.
'suffering' indicates anagramming the letters.
'crop'+'tail'='croptail'
'croptail' anagrammed gives 'TROPICAL'.

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(Other definitions for tropical that I've seen before include "Originating from hotter parts of the earth" , "Middle-earth" , "extremely warm" , "April-Oct, unusually humid and very hot" , "rainforest areas" .)

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