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Fruit machine goes to the family (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

pumpkin

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'fruit' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'machine goes to the family' is the wordplay.
'machine goes' becomes 'pump' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'to the family' becomes 'kin' ('kin' can be a synonym of 'family').
'pump'+'kin'='PUMPKIN'

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(Other definitions for pumpkin that I've seen before include "Large fruit with many seeds" , "Hallowe'en fruit" , "Orange-yellow fruit" , "coach would appear at midnight" , "Large round fruit - coach for Cinderella?" .)

I've seen this clue in The Globe and Mail.
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