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Check back about unfinished pressing for author (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

turgenev

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'for author' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'check back about unfinished pressing' is the wordplay.
'check back' becomes 'tev' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'about' indicates putting letters inside.
'unfinished' means to remove the last letter.
'pressing' becomes 'urgent' (synonyms).
'urgent' with its final letter removed is 'urgen'.
'tev' going around 'urgen' is 'TURGENEV'.

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(Other definitions for turgenev that I've seen before include "Russian author (Fathers and Sons, Virgin Soil)" , "Ivan -, Russian novelist (Fathers and Sons)" , "Dramatist" , "River at Stratford" , "Ivan -------- (1818-1883), writer about Russian life as in Fathers and Sons" .)

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