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One eating contents of pie with very little fruit (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

persimmon

'fruit' is the definition.
(persimmon is a kind of fruit)

'one eating contents of pie with very little' is the wordplay.
'one' becomes 'person' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'eating' is an insertion indicator.
'contents of' says to take the centre (I've seen 'content of' mean this).
'with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'very little' becomes 'mm' (abbreviation for millimetre).
The middle of 'pie' is 'i'.
'i'+'mm'='imm'
'person' placed around 'imm' is 'PERSIMMON'.

(Other definitions for persimmon that I've seen before include "Edible fruit" , "Orange fruit resembling a plum - miner's mop (anag)" , "Tropical fruit" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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