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Fake and inferior (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

ersatz

(Other definitions for ersatz that I've seen before include "'Artificial, not genuine (6)'" , "Spurious" , "Phoney as in Germany" , "Inferior substitute" , "Artificial or synthetic, from German" .)

I've seen this clue in the Universal.
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