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Common brown climbing flower (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

natural

'common' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'brown climbing flower' is the wordplay.
'brown' becomes 'tan' (tan is a kind of brown).
'climbing' is a reversal indicator (in a down clue, letters climb up).
'flower' becomes 'ural' (I've seen this before).
'tan' reversed gives 'nat'.
'nat'+'ural'='NATURAL'

(Other definitions for natural that I've seen before include "Relaxed, unaffected" , "Expected - appropriate - artless" , "Additive-free" , "Normal - innate - instinctive" , "Without affectation" .)

I've seen this clue in The Sunday Times.
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