Peel of lime added to unfinished fruit crush (6)
I believe the answer is:
mangle
'crush' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'peel of lime added to unfinished fruit' is the wordplay.
'peel of' means to remove the middle letters.
'added to' says to put letters next to each other.
'unfinished fruit' becomes 'mang' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'lime' with its centre taken out is 'le'.
'le' put after 'mang' is 'MANGLE'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for mangle that I've seen before include "Old-fashioned laundry appliance" , "Clothes-squeezer" , "Squelchy washing squasher" , "Wringer - make a mess of" , "Crush; old kitchen appliance" .)