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American attempts to get behind independent businesses (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

industries

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'businesses' is the definition.
(industry is a kind of business)

'american attempts to get behind independent' is the wordplay.
'american' becomes 'us'.
'attempts' becomes 'tries' ('try' can be a synonym of 'attempt').
'to get' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'behind independent' becomes 'ind' (I've seen this in other clues. I am not sure about the 'behind' bit.**).
'us'+'tries'='ustries'
'ustries' put after 'ind' is 'INDUSTRIES'.

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(Another definition for industries that I've seen is " commercial enterprises".)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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