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Assortment: possibly it’s cheap (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

pastiche

'assortment' is the definition.
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'possibly it's cheap' is the wordplay.
'possibly' is an anagram indicator.
'its'+'cheap'='itscheap'
'itscheap' anagrammed gives 'PASTICHE'.

(Other definitions for pastiche that I've seen before include "Work of art that imitates the style of a previous work" , "Work of mixed styles" , "Patches I apply to composition drawn from various sources" , "Imitative artistic work" , "Artistic work that imitates another" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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