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Family heir required to eat every bit of spring onion (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

scallion

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

'family heir required to eat every bit' is the wordplay.
'family heir' becomes 'scion' (a scion is a descendant of an important family).
'required to eat' is an insertion indicator.
'every bit' becomes 'all' (all of it).
'scion' enclosing 'all' is 'SCALLION'.

'of' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for scallion that I've seen before include "Green onion" , "Spring 12" , "A spring onion with long neck" , "sort of onion" , "Vegetable" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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