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Mango skins find girls making sweet goo (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

molasses

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'sweet goo' is the definition.
'molasses' can be an answer for 'goo' (thesaurus). I am not certain of the 'sweet' bit.

'mango skins find girls' is the wordplay.
'skins' says to hollow out the word (remove centre letters) (I've seen 'skin' mean this (only the skin or outside of the word is used)).
'find' says to put letters next to each other.
'girls' becomes 'lasses' (lass can informally mean a girl).
'mango' with its centre taken out is 'mo'.
'mo'+'lasses'='MOLASSES'

'making' is the link.

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(Other definitions for molasses that I've seen before include "Slow runner" , "Black treacle" , "Dark syrup from raw sugar" , "Syrupy stuff" , "Thick treacle left over after refining raw sugar" .)

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