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Involve last of fruit in a line, stewed (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

entail

'involve' is the definition.
(entail means to involve or require)

'last of fruit in a line stewed' is the wordplay.
'last of' suggests the final letters.
'in' indicates putting letters inside.
'stewed' indicates an anagram.
The final letter of 'fruit' is 't'.
'a'+'line'='aline'
'aline' is an anagram of 'enail'.
't' placed into 'enail' is 'ENTAIL'.

(Other definitions for entail that I've seen before include "Bring on, involve" , "Involve or require" , "settlement of estate" , "Estate settled" , "Cut" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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