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Admits Grant is taken in by tricks (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

concedes

'admits' is the definition.
(conceding is a kind of admiting)

'grant is taken in by tricks' is the wordplay.
'grant' becomes 'cede' ('cede' can be a synonym of 'grant').
'is taken in by' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'tricks' becomes 'cons' (I've seen this before).
'cede' placed into 'cons' is 'CONCEDES'.

(Another definition for concedes that I've seen is " Admits to be true or yields".)

I've seen this clue in the Irish Times and the Irish Times (Crosaire).
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