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Cleaning outfit – square’s removing clothes covered in coffee (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

laundrette

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'cleaning outfit' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'square's removing clothes covered in coffee' is the wordplay.
'square's' becomes 'undr' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'removing clothes' indicates the central letters (the letters which 'clothe' the rest are removed).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'coffee' becomes 'latte' (type of coffee drink).
The middle of 'covered' is 'e'.
'undr'+'e'='undre'
'undre' put into 'latte' is 'LAUNDRETTE'.

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(Other definitions for laundrette that I've seen before include "On film, mine was beautiful" , "cleaning outfit" , "Washing establishment" , "Wash-room" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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