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Fruit, mostly tropical, canned (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

apricot

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

'mostly tropical canned' is the wordplay.
'mostly' means to remove the last letter.
'canned' is an anagram indicator (canned can mean drunk).
'tropical' with its last letter taken away is 'tropica'.
'tropica' with letters rearranged gives 'APRICOT'.

(Other definitions for apricot that I've seen before include "Stoned fruit" , "Fruit from a tropic" , "Yellowish fruit like a small peach" , "Orange-yellow colour; fruit" , "tree" .)

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