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Foolish about a girl, is possibly rooted to the spot (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

radish

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'possibly rooted to the spot' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this defines the answer.

'foolish about a girl' is the wordplay.
'foolish' becomes 'rash' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'a girl' becomes 'Di'.
'rash' going around 'di' is 'RADISH'.

'is' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for radish that I've seen before include "Sir had this vegetable" , "Edible small root" , "Bit of salad" , "Hard vegetable" , "Red cold salad ingredient" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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