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Squash blood under shoe (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

pumpkin

'squash' is the definition.
(pumpkin is a kind of squash)

'blood under shoe' is the wordplay.
'blood' becomes 'kin' (both can mean one's family).
'under' means one lot of letters go next to another (below, in a down clue).
'shoe' becomes 'pump' (pump is a kind of shoe).
'kin' after 'pump' is 'PUMPKIN'.

(Other definitions for pumpkin that I've seen before include "Large round fruit - coach for Cinderella?" , "Huge yellowy fruit" , "Large type of gourd" , "Halloween vegetable" , "Large orange fruit of the squash family" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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