Yorkshire port stocks large fruit in time to eat it? (4-2,4)
I believe the answer is:
sell-by date
'time to eat it?' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot tell whether this works.
'yorkshire port stocks large fruit' is the wordplay.
'yorkshire port' becomes 'selby' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'stocks' is an insertion indicator (stocks can mean carries or contains).
'large' becomes 'L' (eg in clothes sizes).
'fruit' becomes 'date' (date is a kind of fruit).
'selby' enclosing 'l' is 'sellby'.
'sellby'+'date'='SELL-BY-DATE'
'in' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for sell-by date that I've seen before include "Mark on a perishable" , "Food shop marking" , "Perishable deadline" .)