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Charge the setter's applied to base of furnace (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

impute

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'charge' is the definition.
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'the setter's applied to base of furnace' is the wordplay.
'the setter's' becomes 'im' (I've seen this in other clues).
'applied to' becomes 'put' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'base of' says to take the final letters.
The final letter of 'furnace' is 'e'.
'im'+'put'+'e'='IMPUTE'

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(Other definitions for impute that I've seen before include "Uptime (anag.)" , "'Attribute, assign (6)'" , "reckon" , "Attribute or credit to" , "Attribute (something bad) to someone" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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