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Straining to airlift bananas at end of season (10)

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I believe the answer is:

filtration

'straining' is the definition.
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'to airlift bananas at end of season' is the wordplay.
'bananas' indicates an anagram (informal term for mad).
'at end of' indicates one should take the final letters.
The final letter of 'season' is 'n'.
'to'+'airlift'='toairlift'
'toairlift' with letters rearranged gives 'filtratio'.
'filtratio'+'n'='FILTRATION'

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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