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Asian craft making capital in central Wyoming (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

origami

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'asian craft' is the definition.
'origami' can be an answer for 'craft' (I have seen 'Japanese craft' mean 'origami' so perhaps 'craft' could also mean 'origami'). I am not certain of the 'asian' bit.

'capital in central wyoming' is the wordplay.
'capital' becomes 'riga' (Riga is an example**).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'central' indicates the central letters.
The centre of 'wyoming' is 'omi'.
'riga' put inside 'omi' is 'ORIGAMI'.

'making' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for origami that I've seen before include "Art of crafting objects from paper" , "Delicate operations" , "Japanese art of folding paper into decorative shapes" , "I'm a giro (anag)" , "Making artistic shapes out of paper" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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