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Uses bananas with instant dessert (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

mousse

'dessert' is the definition.
(mousse is a kind of dessert)

'uses bananas with instant' is the wordplay.
'bananas' indicates an anagram (informal term for mad).
'with' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'instant' becomes 'mo' (**).
'uses' is an anagram of 'usse'.
'usse' placed around 'mo' is 'MOUSSE'.

(Other definitions for mousse that I've seen before include "Shock treatment" , "Creamy dish" , "F" , "cold dish" , "Light savoury dish" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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