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Old partners scoffing bananas seen in harmony (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

oneness

'harmony' is the definition.
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'old partners scoffing bananas seen' is the wordplay.
'old' becomes 'o' (common abbreviation eg in OE for Old English).
'partners' becomes 'ns' (North and South are partners in the game bridge).
'scoffing' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'bananas' is an anagram indicator (bananas can informally mean crazy).
'seen' is an anagram of 'enes'.
'ns' going around 'enes' is 'neness'.
'o'+'neness'='ONENESS'

'in' is the link.

(Other definitions for oneness that I've seen before include "Agreement" , "singularity" , "#Unique quality" , "Unified state" , "Singular quality" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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