Light brown caramel, no hard centres (5)

I believe the answer is:

camel

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'light brown' is the definition.
'camel' can be an answer for 'brown' (camel is a shade of brown). I'm unsure of the 'light' bit.

'caramel no hard centres' is the wordplay.
'caramel no' becomes 'came' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'hard' becomes 'velar' (similar in meaning).
'centres' says to take the centre.
The middle of 'velar' is 'l'.
'came'+'l'='CAMEL'

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(Other definitions for camel that I've seen before include "Means of transport" , "Bearer of burdens" , "African transport" , "Ungulate mammal" , "Beastly type" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.

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