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Earl with enormous clothing to praise (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

extol

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'praise' is the definition.
(extolling is a kind of praising)

'earl with enormous clothing to' is the wordplay.
'earl' becomes 'e'.
'with enormous' becomes 'xl' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'clothing' means one lot of letters goes inside another (some letters cover up or clothe others).
'xl' placed around 'to' is 'xtol'.
'e'+'xtol'='EXTOL'

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(Other definitions for extol that I've seen before include "Cry up" , "Praise highly, laud" , "Highly commend" , "Applaud" , "Acclaim" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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