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Explosive made tiny fragments (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

dynamite

'explosive' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'made tiny fragments' is the wordplay.
'fragments' indicates anagramming the letters.
'made'+'tiny'='madetiny'
'madetiny' anagrammed gives 'DYNAMITE'.

(Other definitions for dynamite that I've seen before include "Nitroglycerine explosive" , "May end it with explosive" , "might one be blown away by it?" , "Tiny dame (anag)" , "an exciting thing" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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