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We eat brown fruit, mostly in front of animals (5-5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

orang-utans

'animals' is the definition.
The answer is an example.

'we eat brown fruit mostly in front' is the wordplay.
'we' becomes 'us'.
'eat' is an insertion indicator.
'brown' becomes 'tan' (tan is a kind of brown).
'fruit mostly' becomes 'orang' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'in front' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'us' placed around 'tan' is 'utans'.
'utans' after 'orang' is 'ORANG-UTANS'.

'of' is the link.

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