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Board showing pasty as lacking in taste (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

palette

'board' is the definition.
(I know that palette is a type of board)

'pasty as lacking in taste' is the wordplay.
'pasty' becomes 'pale' (synonyms).
'lacking in' suggests deleting specific letters.
'taste' with 'as' removed is 'tte'.
'pale'+'tte'='PALETTE'

'showing' is the link.

(Other definitions for palette that I've seen before include "Board on which painter mixes colours" , "Painter's board" , "painting equipment" , "Artist's board with thumb-hole" , "Artist's colour-mixing board" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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