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Sweet way to tee off (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

toffee

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'sweet' is the definition.
(I know that Toffee is a type of sweet)

'way to tee off' is the wordplay.
'way' becomes 'ee' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'to' means one lot of letters go next to another (I've seen this in other clues).
'tee' becomes 't'.
't'+'off'='toff'
'ee' after 'toff' is 'TOFFEE'.

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(Other definitions for toffee that I've seen before include "Confectionery made from sugar and butter" , "Sweet made with heated butter and sugar" , "Chewy confectionery" , "Chewy confection" , "can we not do something for it?" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Independent.
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