Postwar child peeled tropical fruit that’s seen in Australia (9)
I believe the answer is:
boomerang
'seen in australia' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I cannot understand how one could define the other.
'postwar child peeled tropical fruit' is the wordplay.
'postwar child' becomes 'boomer' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'peeled' says to take the centre (outer letters are peeled off).
'tropical fruit' becomes 'mango' (I've seen this in another clue).
The central letters of 'mango' are 'ang'.
'boomer'+'ang'='BOOMERANG'
'that's' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for boomerang that I've seen before include "Aboriginal weapon" , "Curved throwing stick" , ""It keeps coming back"" , "Recoil from" , "Aboriginal throwing stick" .)