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Establish Kitty has nothing (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

found

'establish' is the definition.
(found can mean to set up or establish)

'kitty has nothing' is the wordplay.
'kitty' becomes 'fund' (fund or money for a particular purpose).
'has' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'nothing' becomes 'O' (O resembles 0).
'fund' placed around 'o' is 'FOUND'.

(Other definitions for found that I've seen before include "Start" , "Establish" , "To bring into being; cast" , "Launch" , "Discovered" .)

I've seen this clue in The Mirror.
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