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Surrogate bore my fertilised egg (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

embryo

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'fertilised egg' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'surrogate bore my' is the wordplay.
'bore my' can be anagrammed to 'EMBRYO'.
However, I'm not clear how this is indicated.

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(Other definitions for embryo that I've seen before include "Rudimentary state" , "Primitive state" , "Animal or plant in its earliest stages" , "This could be the beginning" , "Animal in early stage, before birth" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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