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Brilliant pair of singles? (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

aone

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'brilliant pair' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot tell whether it can be defined by this definition.

'of singles?' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'of' could be 'o' and 'o' is present in the answer.
The remaining letters 'ane' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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