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Youngster ate green bananas (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

teenager

'youngster' is the definition.
(I know that teenager is a type of youngster)

'ate green bananas' is the wordplay.
'bananas' indicates anagramming the letters (bananas can informally mean crazy).
'ate'+'green'='ategreen'
'ategreen' anagrammed gives 'TEENAGER'.

(Other definitions for teenager that I've seen before include "Young person" , "14, perhaps" , "Old child or young adult?" , "one with an unpredictable nature" , "Generate (anag)" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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