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Employees seek opinions about Scottish town

Ross

I believe the answer is:

payroll

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'employees seek' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this defines the answer.

'opinions about scottish town' is the wordplay.
'opinions' becomes 'poll' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'scottish town' becomes 'ayr' (I've seen this before).
'poll' placed around 'ayr' is 'PAYROLL'.

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(Other definitions for payroll that I've seen before include "salaried staff" , "List of employees and their salaries" , "Total of wages" , "List of workers and wages" , "List of employees and earnings" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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