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Finds one is disparaging about (4,4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

runs down

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'finds' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'one is disparaging about' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'one' could be 'un' (northern English dialect form of 'one') and 'un' is present in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for runs down that I've seen before include "searches successfully" , "Speaks ill of" , "Criticises" , "finds" , "what NI county boss does?" .)

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