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Architect discovered here undressed (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

founder

'architect' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'discovered here undressed' is the wordplay.
'discovered' becomes 'found' (finding is a kind of discovering).
'undressed' says to take the centre (the word removes the letters which clothe it).
The middle letters of 'here' are 'er'.
'found'+'er'='FOUNDER'

(Other definitions for founder that I've seen before include "One who establishes an institution" , "Institution's former" , "(Of ship) fill with water and sink" , "Creator" , "Sink like originator?" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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