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Fruit with spike — bad feeling being swallowed (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

tangerine

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

'spike bad feeling being swallowed' is the wordplay.
'spike' becomes 'tine' (spike of a fork).
'bad feeling' becomes 'anger' (anger is a kind of feeling. I am not sure about the 'bad' bit.).
'being swallowed' indicates putting letters inside.
'tine' going around 'anger' is 'TANGERINE'.

'with' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for tangerine that I've seen before include "Tree" , "orange colour" , "Taste" , "Green tan I change into orange" , "Small orange-like fruit (from North Africa?)" .)

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