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Vegetable soup of haricot and kale, cored (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

artichoke

'vegetable' is the definition.
(type of vegetable)

'soup of haricot and kale cored' is the wordplay.
'soup of' indicates anagramming the letters (I've seen 'soup' mean this).
'and' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'cored' says to hollow out the word (remove centre letters) (the word has its insides or core removed).
'kale' with its centre taken out is 'ke'.
'haricot' is an anagram of 'articho'.
'articho'+'ke'='ARTICHOKE'

(Other definitions for artichoke that I've seen before include "something often associated with Jerusalem" , "Globe, perhaps" , "Globe vegetable?" , "globe, for example" , "See 26" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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