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Effective auditory receptor, primarily? (3)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

ear

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'effective auditory receptor primarily?' is the definition.
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'effective auditory receptor primarily?' is the wordplay.
'primarily?' says to take the initial letters (I've seen 'primarily' mean this).
The initial letters of 'effective auditory receptor' is 'EAR'.

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(Other definitions for ear that I've seen before include "Ability to recognise sounds" , "Appreciation of sounds" , "That makes sense" , "Head of, eg, corn" , "Musical appreciation" .)

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