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Fruits baked to a crisp (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

apricots

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

'baked to a crisp' is the wordplay.
'baked' indicates an anagram.
'to'+'a'+'crisp'='toacrisp'
'toacrisp' with letters rearranged gives 'APRICOTS'.

(Other definitions for apricots that I've seen before include "Orange fruit" , "Rio pacts about the fruits" , "Capri sot makes the fruit" , "trees" , "Rio pacts produce the fruit" .)

I've seen this clue in the Irish Times (Crosaire) and the Irish Times.
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