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Fruit drops? (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

windfalls

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'fruit drops?' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are plural nouns, I cannot see how they can define each other.

'fruit drops?' is the wordplay.
'fruit' becomes 'wind' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'drops?' becomes 'falls' ('fall' can be a synonym of 'drop').
'wind'+'falls'='WINDFALLS'

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