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Climbing southern mountains with husband in plaster (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

splash

'plaster' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'climbing southern mountains with husband' is the wordplay.
'climbing' is a reversal indicator (in a down clue, letters climb up).
'southern' becomes 's' (abbreviation).
'mountains' becomes 'alps' (alp is a kind of mountain**).
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'husband' becomes 'h'.
's'+'alps'='salps'
'salps' reversed gives 'splas'.
'splas'+'h'='SPLASH'

'in' is the link.

(Other definitions for splash that I've seen before include "Big media display -- bellyflop effect" , "Spatter liquid about" , "Small amount of something liquid" , "Effect of hitting water (or headlines!)" , "major news item" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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