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Fruit pie pen-pal cooked (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

pineapple

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

'pie pen-pal cooked' is the wordplay.
'cooked' is an anagram indicator (letters cooked into a new form).
'pie'+'pen'+'pal'='piepenpal'
'piepenpal' is an anagram of 'PINEAPPLE'.

(Other definitions for pineapple that I've seen before include "Juicy tropical fruit or slang hand grenade" , "Fruit (tree and fruit!)" , "Juicy tropical fruit often sold segmented" , "that might go off?" , "Large juicy tropical fruit, or a grenade" .)

I've seen this clue in The Sun.
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