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Portray fruit for unwanted third person (4,10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

play gooseberry

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'portray fruit for unwanted third person' is the definition.
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'portray fruit for unwanted third person' is the wordplay.
'portray fruit' becomes 'play' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'for' says to put letters next to each other.
'unwanted third person' becomes 'gooseberry' (I've seen this before).
'play'+'gooseberry'='PLAY GOOSEBERRY'

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(Other definitions for play gooseberry that I've seen before include "Be the third party" , "Embarrass others" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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