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Fruit and vegetable, cold/hot (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

peach

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

'vegetable coldhot' is the wordplay.
'vegetable' becomes 'pea' (pea is a kind of vegetable).
'coldhot' becomes 'ch' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'pea'+'ch'='PEACH'

'and' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for peach that I've seen before include "To accuse" , "Cheap (anag.)" , "Popular stone-fruit" , "Fruit with downy skin" , "Fruit - beauty" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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