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Will eat the ice-cream, you add, inside (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

consume

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'you add inside' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this definition defines the answer.

'will eat the ice-cream' is the wordplay.
'will' becomes 'sum' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'eat' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'the ice-cream' becomes 'cone' (I've seen this in other clues).
'sum' put inside 'cone' is 'CONSUME'.

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(Other definitions for consume that I've seen before include "Eat, drink" , "Devour" , "Exhaust" , "Use up" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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