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Parasite taking skin off edible fruit (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

leechee

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

'parasite taking skin off edible' is the wordplay.
'parasite' becomes 'leech' (synonyms).
'taking' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'skin off' says to hollow out the word (remove centre letters) (the outer letters or skin of the word).
'edible' with its centre removed is 'ee'.
'leech'+'ee'='LEECHEE'

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