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Hunk of bread and peeled tomato mashed together (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

dreamboat

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

'bread and peeled tomato mashed together' is the wordplay.
'and' means one lot of letters go next to another (I've seen this in other clues).
'peeled' says to take the centre.
'mashed together' is an anagram indicator.
The middle of 'tomato' is 'omat'.
'bread' put after 'omat' is 'omatbread'.
'omatbread' with letters rearranged gives 'DREAMBOAT'.

'of' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for dreamboat that I've seen before include "highly desirable figure?" , "captivating person of opposite sex" , "Mr Wonderful" , "Dishy fellow" , "Hunk" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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