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Deny no-one outside access (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

negate

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'deny' is the definition.
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'no-one outside access' is the wordplay.
'no one' becomes 'ne' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'outside' says to put letters next to each other (outside can mean adjacent to).
'access' becomes 'gate' (I've seen this in other clues).
'ne'+'gate'='NEGATE'

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(Other definitions for negate that I've seen before include "Age ten (anag)" , "Show to be false" , "Make invalid" , "Opera by Puccini" , "Cause to have no effect" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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