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Report healthy weather (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

hail

'weather' is the definition.
(hail is a kind of weather)

'report healthy' is the wordplay.
'report' shows a homophone (sound like).
'healthy' becomes 'hale' (hale can mean fit and healthy).
'hale' sounds like 'HAIL'.

(Other definitions for hail that I've seen before include "Fall of ice" , "Stones from the sky" , "Shower of ice pellets" , "Falling ice pellets" , "Signal to and summon, say a taxi" .)

I've seen this clue in The Mirror.
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