Cryptic crossword clue
Variety of fruit that’s peeled 5

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word RANGE

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The straight part
We know that "Variety" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case variety = range.
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What does RANGE mean?

RANGE noun
  1. A line or series of mountains, buildings, etc.
  2. A fireplace; a fire or other cooking apparatus; now specifically, a large cooking stove with many hotplates.
  3. Selection, array.
  4. An area for practicing shooting at targets.
  5. An area for military training or equipment testing.
  6. The distance from a person or sensor to an object, target, emanation, or event.
  7. Maximum distance of capability (of a weapon, radio, detector, fuel supply, etc.).
  8. An area of open, often unfenced, grazing land.
  9. Extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or extent of excursion; reach; scope.
  10. The set of values (points) which a function can obtain.
  11. The length of the smallest interval which contains all the data in a sample; the difference between the largest and smallest observations in the sample.
  12. The defensive area that a player can cover.
  13. The scale of all the tones a voice or an instrument can produce.
  14. The geographical area or zone where a species is normally naturally found.
  15. A sequential list of values specified by an iterator.
  16. An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree; an order; a class.
  17. The step of a ladder; a rung.
  18. A bolting sieve to sift meal.
  19. A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition.
  20. In the public land system, a row or line of townships lying between two succession meridian lines six miles apart.
  21. The scope of something, the extent that something covers or includes.
  22. The variety of roles that an actor can play in a satisfactory way.
RANGE verb
  1. To travel over (an area, etc); to roam, wander.
  2. To rove over or through.
  3. To exercise the power of something over something else; to cause to submit to, over.
  4. To bring (something) into a specified position or relationship (especially, of opposition) with something else.
  5. (followed by over) Of a variable, to be able to take any of the values in a specified range.
  6. To classify.
  7. To form a line or a row.
  8. To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank.
  9. To set in a row, or in rows; to place in a regular line or lines, or in ranks; to dispose in the proper order.
  10. To place among others in a line, row, or order, as in the ranks of an army; usually, reflexively and figuratively, to espouse a cause, to join a party, etc.
  11. To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region.
  12. To separate into parts; to sift.
  13. To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near.
  14. Of a player, to travel a significant distance for a defensive play.

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