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Fruit spirit before bottling (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

tangelo

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'fruit' is the definition.
(I know that tangelo is a fruit)

'spirit before bottling' is the wordplay.
'spirit' becomes 'angel'.
'before' becomes 'to' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'bottling' means one lot of letters goes inside another (bottling is a kind of containing).
'angel' going into 'to' is 'TANGELO'.

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(Other definitions for tangelo that I've seen before include "Citrus fruit hybrid" , "Mixed fruit" , "one cross, sour" , "sharp cross" , "fruitful merger?" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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