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Smell right inside that's sharp (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

prong

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'sharp' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both man-made objects as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps you can see a link between them that I can't see?

'smell right inside' is the wordplay.
'smell' becomes 'pong' (pong can informally mean a bad smell).
'right' becomes 'r' (common abbreviation).
'inside' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'pong' placed around 'r' is 'PRONG'.

'that's' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for prong that I've seen before include "Tooth" , "Tine of a fork" , "Spike of fork etc" , "one gets stuck into dinner" , "Pointed end of fork" .)

I've seen this clue in The Daily Express.
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