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Evidence of delivery time given by shop informally (7,5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

stretch marks

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'by shop informally' is the definition.
I know nothing about this answer so I cannot judge whether this works.

'evidence of delivery time' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'evidence' could be 'mark' (mark is a kind of evidence) and 'mark' is present in the answer.
'time' could be 'stretch' (I've seen this before) and 'stretch' is found in the answer.
A single letter 's' remains which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

'given' is the link.

Can you help me to learn more?

(Another definition for stretch marks that I've seen is " maternal lines".)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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