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Sprinkled ‘Amour' gin topping on strawberry fool (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

ignoramus

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'fool' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)

'sprinkled amour gin topping on strawberry' is the wordplay.
'sprinkled' is an anagram indicator (the letters are sprinkled around).
'topping' says to put letters next to each other.
'on' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'strawberry' becomes 's' (this could be a standard abbreviation which I don't know about).
'amour' put after 'gin' is 'ginamour'.
'ginamour' is an anagram of 'ignoramu'.
'ignoramu'+'s'='IGNORAMUS'

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(Other definitions for ignoramus that I've seen before include "One could be blissful it's said" , "Dunce" , "one in a state of bliss?" , "Ron is a mug (anag.)" , "Uninformed sort" .)

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