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Digs up iron bar found outside park by building in temporary setting (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

prefab

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'temporary setting' is the definition.

'digs up iron bar found outside' is the wordplay.
'digs' becomes 'p' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'up' is a reversal indicator (in down clue: letters go upwards).
'iron' becomes 'fe' ('Fe' can be a synonym of 'iron').
'found outside' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'fe' inserted within 'bar' is 'bafer'.
'bafer' written backwards gives 'refab'.
'p'+'refab'='PREFAB'

'park by building in' is the link.
This may not be correct. Some or all of it may belong to another bit of the clue.

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(Other definitions for prefab that I've seen before include "Cheap building" , "Structure made in one place and placed elsewhere, in short" , "Sort of dwelling" , "Manufactured in standard sizes and assembled elsewhere, in short" , "Building assembled from manufactured parts, in short" .)

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