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An interesting collection of dogs - about ten (6)

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I believe the answer is:

curios

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'an interesting collection of dogs about ten' is the definition.
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'dogs about ten' is the wordplay.
'dogs' becomes 'curs' (cur can mean a violent dog).
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'ten' becomes 'IO' (IO resembles 10).
'curs' placed around 'io' is 'CURIOS'.

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(Other definitions for curios that I've seen before include "Rare and interesting articles" , "Oddities, peculiarities" , "Knick-knacks" , "Rare and unusual objects" , "Collectible oddments" .)

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