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Reportedly uninteresting fruit (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

sloe

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

'reportedly uninteresting' is the wordplay.
'reportedly' shows a homophone (sound like).
'uninteresting' becomes 'slow'.
'slow' is a homophone of 'SLOE'.

(Other definitions for sloe that I've seen before include "Sour blue-black fruit" , "Thorny bush with plum-like fruit" , "Fruit of the blackthorn does't sound fast" , "Musical study" , "Black fruit" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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