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Come round with a spare part to match (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

compare

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'match' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'come round with a spare part' is the wordplay.
'round' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'with' is an insertion indicator.
'spare part' becomes 'pr' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'a' placed into 'pr' is 'par'.
'come' going around 'par' is 'COMPARE'.

'to' is the link.

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(Other definitions for compare that I've seen before include "what discriminators do" , "Represent as similar; sounds like emcee" , "Look at differences and similarities between (things)" , "Contrast - liken" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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