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Graduate meets fool in plant (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

banana

'plant' is the definition.
(banana is a kind of plant)

'graduate meets fool' is the wordplay.
'graduate' becomes 'ba'.
'meets' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'fool' becomes 'nana' (I've seen this before).
'ba'+'nana'='BANANA'

'in' is the link.

(Other definitions for banana that I've seen before include "Fruit grown in hands" , "Yellow fruit with slippery skin" , "Tropical yellow fruit" , "Fruit with soft, sweet flesh" , "Elongated edible fruit" .)

I've seen this clue in The Sun and The Times.
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