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Fruit got from broken crate found in square (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

nectarine

'fruit' is the definition.
(I know that nectarine is a fruit)

'broken crate found in square' is the wordplay.
'broken' indicates anagramming the letters.
'found in' is an insertion indicator.
'square' becomes 'nine' (nine is a square number).
'crate' anagrammed gives 'ectar'.
'ectar' put within 'nine' is 'NECTARINE'.

'got from' is the link.

(Other definitions for nectarine that I've seen before include "type of tree" , "Peach-like fruit" , "Trace nine to a kind of peach" , "Kind of peach with thin skin and no down" , "Fruit - aren't nice (anag)" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.
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