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Appear again outside of refuge with beach dude? (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

resurface

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'appear again' is the definition.
(resurfacing is a kind of appearing again)

'outside of refuge with beach dude?' is the wordplay.
'outside of' says to hollow out the word (remove centre letters).
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'beach' becomes 'surf'.
'dude?' becomes 'ace' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'refuge' with its middle removed is 're'.
're'+'surf'+'ace'='RESURFACE'

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(Other definitions for resurface that I've seen before include "roadworks" , "Once more appear" , "Recover" , "Put a new coating on" , "Bob up" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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