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Fruit and exercise has to manage (5)

Ross

There are a few possibilities for this:

'fruit' is the definition.
(prune is a kind of fruit)

'exercise has to manage' is the wordplay.
'exercise' becomes 'pe' (Physical Education).
'has' indicates putting letters inside.
'to manage' becomes 'run' (both can mean to organise).
'pe' going around 'run' is 'PRUNE'.

'and' is the link.

(Other definitions for prune that I've seen before include "A fruit; to cut back" , "Trim - dried fruit" , "Cut back the dried plum" , "Shrivelled fruit" , "Dull person" .)

I've seen this clue in The Mirror.
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