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Finally, it's quite important to give a sprinkling of table salt to nuts (4,3,3,5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

last but not least

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

'of table salt to nuts' is the wordplay.
'of' indicates anagramming the letters (the answer comes from or 'of' the letters).
'table'+'salt'+'to'+'nuts'='tablesalttonuts'
'tablesalttonuts' is an anagram of 'LAST BUT NOT LEAST'.

'it's quite important to give a sprinkling' is the link.
I am not very happy about this link. Some or all of it may be part of another bit of the clue.

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(Other definitions for last but not least that I've seen before include "still worth a mention?" , "arranged in ascending order of height?" , "Finally, encouragingly" , "Ultimately still important" , "what Scrabble player could do with italics?" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.
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