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Accents of Dutch wearing dated hats (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

tildes

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'accents' is the definition.

'of dutch wearing dated hats' is the wordplay.
'of dutch' becomes 'tiles' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'wearing' indicates putting letters inside.
'hats' suggests taking the first letters (in a down clue, the letter at the top of the word).
The first letter of 'dated' is 'd'.
'tiles' placed around 'd' is 'TILDES'.

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(Other definitions for tildes that I've seen before include "Pronunciation marks over the letter n in Spanish" , "Marks over Ns in Spanish" , "Curly marks" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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