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Smartie from vividly coloured box kid's opening (6,5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

bright spark

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'smartie from vividly coloured' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I can't tell whether this works.

'box kid's opening' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'box' could be 'ark' (ark is a kind of box) and 'ark' is found within the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

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(Other definitions for bright spark that I've seen before include "Lively and clever individual" , "ironically, one that's witty" , "One full of ideas" , "one who has many good ideas" , "Clever person" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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