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Precious stone given by a fellow on date in bar (9)

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I believe the answer is:

almandine

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'precious stone' is the definition.

'a fellow on date in bar' is the wordplay.
'a fellow' becomes 'man' (fellow can mean a man).
'on' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'date in bar' becomes 'aldine' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'man' going into 'aldine' is 'ALMANDINE'.

'given by' acts as a link.

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(Another definition for almandine that I've seen is " jewellery".)

I've seen this clue in The Hindu.
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