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He produced an explosive burst going round the bend (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

brutus

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'he' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are singular nouns.
Perhaps you can see a link between them that I don't see?

'an explosive burst going round the bend' is the wordplay.
'an explosive' indicates an anagram.
'going round' is an insertion indicator (some letters go around others).
'the bend' becomes 'U' (a U-bend is a kind of bend - pipe under sink).
'burst' anagrammed gives 'bruts'.
'bruts' enclosing 'u' is 'BRUTUS'.

'produced' is the link.

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(Other definitions for brutus that I've seen before include "Roman conspirator" , "One of Caesar's killers" , "He was last to stab Julius Caesar" , "An honourable man, said Antony" , ""The noblest Roman of them all"" .)

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