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All pearl clusters aligned (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

parallel

'aligned' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'all pearl clusters' is the wordplay.
'clusters' indicates an anagram (letters cluster in another way).
'all'+'pearl'='allpearl'
'allpearl' with letters rearranged gives 'PARALLEL'.

(Other definitions for parallel that I've seen before include "equivalent" , "Continuously at equal distances apart" , "Circle of constant latitude" , "(Of lines) meeting at infinity" , "Correspondence" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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