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Heart, from which army officer's spoken? (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

kernel

'heart' is the definition.
(I know that heart can be written as kernel)

'army officer's spoken?' is the wordplay.
'army officer' becomes 'colonel ' (I've seen this before).
'spoken?' indicates a 'sounds like' (homophone) clue.
'colonel' sounds like 'KERNEL'.

'from which' is the link.

(Other definitions for kernel that I've seen before include "Inner part of a seed, the heart of the matter" , "The edible centre of a nut" , "Inner seed of nut" , "Essential part" , "Hard centre of nut" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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