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Dirt, GO? (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

ground

'dirt' is the definition.
(I know that dirt can be written as ground)

'go?' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'go?' could be 'round' (rounding is a kind of going) and 'round' is found within the answer.
A single letter 'g' remains which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

(Other definitions for ground that I've seen before include "on which Pachelbel wrote his Canon?" , "territory" , "Base; reason" , "Stadium; crushed" , "Worked hard" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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