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Ground corn is offloaded from this (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

earth

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'ground' is the definition.
(I know that ground can be written as earth)

'corn is offloaded from this' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'corn' could be 'ear' (an ear is a piece of corn) and 'ear' is found in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for earth that I've seen before include "See 12" , "costs so much?" , "It is necessary to clear" , "underground shelter" , "our home" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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