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Vegetable that’s small and sweet (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

spud

'vegetable' is the definition.
(spud is a kind of vegetable)

'small and sweet' is the wordplay.
'small' becomes 's' (abbreviation - e.g. clothes size).
'and' says to put letters next to each other.
'sweet' becomes 'pud' (pud is a kind of sweet).
's'+'pud'='SPUD'

'that's' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for spud that I've seen before include "The common potato" , "One might have an eye" , "Murphy" , "Commoner's King Edward?" , "one's eyed" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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