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A horse without covering bolted wildly — only now turn to this? (6,4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

stable door

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'wildly only now turn to this?' is the definition.
The definition suggests a singular noun which matches the answer.

'a horse without covering bolted' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'a' is within the answer.
an anagram of 'bolted' is 'tbledo' which is present in the remaining letters.
The remaining letters 'sor' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Another definition for stable door that I've seen is " It's often locked after the horse has bolted".)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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