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A pie's turning brown (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

sepia

'brown' is the definition.
(I know that sepia is a type of brown)

'a pie's turning' is the wordplay.
'turning' indicates anagramming the letters.
'a'+'pies'='apies'
'apies' with letters rearranged gives 'SEPIA'.

(Other definitions for sepia that I've seen before include "Brown colour of old photo" , "Shade of brown, as in old photographs" , "Old drawing" , "Sort of drawing" , "Denizen of deep" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Independent and The Irish News.
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