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Honey bishop hid in tree (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

baby

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'honey bishop' is the definition.
'baby' can be an answer for 'honey' (I've seen this before). I am not sure about the 'bishop' bit.

'hid in tree' is the wordplay.
'hid' becomes 'b' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'tree' becomes 'bay' (bay is a kind of tree).
'b' placed within 'bay' is 'BABY'.

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(Other definitions for baby that I've seen before include "Very young person" , "Love" , "Very small (version)" , "Newly-born child" , "Very young child" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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