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Dog often turning up, interrupting my redesign (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

modify

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'redesign' is the definition.
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'dog often turning up interrupting my' is the wordplay.
'dog often' becomes 'fido' (I've seen this before. I am not sure about the 'often' bit.).
'turning up' says the letters should be written backwards.
'interrupting' is an insertion indicator.
'fido' back-to-front is 'odif'.
'odif' placed within 'my' is 'MODIFY'.

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(Other definitions for modify that I've seen before include "Adjust" , "reform" , "Revise" , "Adapt" , "Make partial changes to" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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