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Dress I put on about spring (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

origin

'spring' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)

'dress i put on about' is the wordplay.
'dress' becomes 'rig' (rig is a kind of dress).
'put' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'rig'+'i'='rigi'
'rigi' inserted into 'on' is 'ORIGIN'.

(Other definitions for origin that I've seen before include "Beginning (of species?)" , "Place or point of beginning (6)" , "Source - provenance" , "base" , "Genesis" .)

I've seen this clue in The Globe and Mail.
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