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Actress at first put on nothing in indigo (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

anil

'indigo' is the definition.
(anil is a kind of indigo)

'actress at first put on nothing' is the wordplay.
'at first' says to take the initial letters.
'put on' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'nothing' becomes 'nil' ('nil' can be a synonym of 'nothing'**).
The first letter of 'actress' is 'a'.
'a'+'nil'='ANIL'

'in' is the link.

(Other definitions for anil that I've seen before include "A blue dye" , "It produces dye" , "Colouring" , "Indian man" , "Dye for nail" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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