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Come clean in review belonging to victim? Dangerous! (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

admit

'come clean' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'review belonging to victim? dangerous' is the wordplay.
'review' says the letters should be written backwards.
'belonging to' says the answer is hidden in the clue (I've seen this in other clues).
'timda' can be found hidden inside 'victim dangerous'.
'timda' reversed gives 'ADMIT'.

'in' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for admit that I've seen before include "permit to come in" , "Reveal" , "Profess" , "Accept" , "Allow to enter; own up" .)

I've seen this clue in the Irish Times and the Irish Times (Crosaire).
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