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Surprisingly tiny chest that's not natural (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

synthetic

'not natural' is the definition.
(something synthesised is not natural)

'surprisingly tiny chest' is the wordplay.
'surprisingly' indicates anagramming the letters (a surprising ordering of the letters).
'tiny'+'chest'='tinychest'
'tinychest' is an anagram of 'SYNTHETIC'.

'that's' is the link.

(Other definitions for synthetic that I've seen before include "Not natural in origin" , "Artificially made" , "Artificially produced" , "Affected" , "Artificially-made compound" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.
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