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Nude aunt's whipped up an ice-cream treat (3,6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

nut sundae

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'nude aunt's whipped up an ice-cream treat' is the definition.
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'nude aunt's whipped up an ice-cream treat' is the wordplay.
'nude' says to take the centre (the word is stripped of its outer letters).
'whipped up' indicates an anagram.
'an ice-cream treat' becomes 'sundae' (I've seen this in another clue).
The centre of 'aunts' is 'unt'.
'unt' is an anagram of 'nut'.
'nut'+'sundae'='NUT SUNDAE'

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