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Containing wildfire is viable and can be confirmed (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

verifiable

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'can be confirmed' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this definition defines the answer.

'containing wildfire is viable' is the wordplay.
'containing' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'wildfire' becomes 'erif' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'erif' inserted within 'viable' is 'VERIFIABLE'.

'and' is the link.

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(Another definition for verifiable that I've seen is " Able to be confirmed".)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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