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Child exhausted by midnight coming to (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

totalling

'coming to' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'child exhausted by midnight' is the wordplay.
'child' becomes 'tot' (term for a young child).
'exhausted' becomes 'all in' ('all in' can mean exhausted).
'by' says to put letters next to each other.
'midnight' becomes 'g' (the middle letter in 'night').
'tot'+'allin'+'g'='TOTALLING'

(Other definitions for totalling that I've seen before include "Coming to" , "Summing to" , "Addition" .)

I've seen this clue in The Daily Express.
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