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Fruit from can — entire bananas (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

nectarine

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

'can entire bananas' is the wordplay.
'bananas' indicates an anagram (bananas can informally mean crazy).
'can'+'entire'='canentire'
'canentire' is an anagram of 'NECTARINE'.

'from' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for nectarine that I've seen before include "Smooth-skinned fruit" , "Variety or mutation of a peach" , "Kind of peach with thin skin and no down" , "Trace nine to a kind of peach" , "fruity" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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