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Fasten around the eye (4)

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I believe the answer is:

lash

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'fasten' is the definition.
(I know that bind is a is a kind of of lash)

'around the eye' is the wordplay.
'around' becomes 'las' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'eye' says to take the centre (eye can mean the centre of something).
The middle letter of 'the' is 'h'.
'las'+'h'='LASH'

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(Other definitions for lash that I've seen before include "over the eye" , "Beat; fasten with cord" , "cat hair?" , "Strike with a whip" , "Sweep" .)

I've seen this clue in The Mirror.
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