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Clearly expresses fanciful ancient use (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

enunciates

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'clearly expresses' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both to do with communicating as well as being verbs in their -s form.
Perhaps you can see an association between them that I can't see?

'fanciful ancient use' is the wordplay.
'fanciful' indicates anagramming the letters (a fanciful or silly ordering of the letters).
'ancient'+'use'='ancientuse'
'ancientuse' is an anagram of 'ENUNCIATES'.

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