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Eat long misshapen fruit (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

tangelo

'fruit' is the definition.
(tangelo is a kind of fruit)

'eat long misshapen' is the wordplay.
'misshapen' is an anagram indicator.
'eat'+'long'='eatlong'
'eatlong' with letters rearranged gives 'TANGELO'.

(Other definitions for tangelo that I've seen before include "Hybrid fruit; eat long (anag.)" , "Citrus hybrid - goal net (anag)" , "one cross, sour" , "sharp cross" , "fruitful merger?" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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