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Engineer questions exchanging money for new false reports (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

misquotes

'false reports' is the definition.
(false reports of speech)

I don't understand the remainder of the clue.

(Another definition for misquotes that I've seen is " Cites incorrectly".)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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