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Football team eating fruit, almost without restraint (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

unlimited

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'without restraint' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this definition defines the answer.

'football team eating fruit almost' is the wordplay.
'football team' becomes 'united' (eg Manchester United).
'eating' indicates putting letters inside.
'fruit' becomes 'lime' (lime is a kind of fruit).
'almost' means to remove the last letter (most of the word but not all of it).
'lime' with its final letter removed is 'lim'.
'united' placed around 'lim' is 'UNLIMITED'.

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(Other definitions for unlimited that I've seen before include "out of bounds" , "Boundless" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times and The Sunday Times.
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