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Quarrel involving fruit, extremely hot (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

fight

'quarrel' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'fruit extremely hot' is the wordplay.
'fruit' becomes 'fig' (fig is a kind of fruit).
'extremely' says to hollow out the word (remove centre letters) (only the extremes of the word are used).
'hot' with its centre removed is 'ht'.
'fig'+'ht'='FIGHT'

'involving' is the link.

(Other definitions for fight that I've seen before include "Bundle" , "Come to blows" , "Brawl; argue" , "Struggle; quarrel" , "Box" .)

I've seen this clue in The Daily Express.
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