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Remains in the cabinet? (4,5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

bone china

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'remains in the cabinet?' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both man-made objects as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I can't see?

'in the cabinet?' is the wordplay.
'in the' becomes 'bone' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'cabinet?' becomes 'china' (china cabinet is a kind of cabinet).
'bone'+'china'='BONE CHINA'

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(Other definitions for bone china that I've seen before include "Fine things perhaps thrown" , "Type of fine porcelain" , "Form of white porcelain" , "Coalport" , "High quality porcelain" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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