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Nuts, margarine, and no fruit (8,6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

mandarin orange

'fruit' is the definition.
(mandarin orange is a kind of fruit)

'nuts margarine and no' is the wordplay.
'nuts' indicates anagramming the letters (nuts can mean crazy).
'margarine'+'and'+'no'='margarineandno'
'margarineandno' anagrammed gives 'MANDARIN ORANGE'.

(Another definition for mandarin orange that I've seen is " Chinese round stove in which there's fruit".)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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