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Father's outside toilet, a levelled area (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

floor

'a levelled area' is the definition.

'father's outside toilet' is the wordplay.
'father' becomes 'fr'.
'outside' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'toilet' becomes 'loo' (loo is a kind of toilet).
'fr' enclosing 'loo' is 'FLOOR'.

(Other definitions for floor that I've seen before include "Baffle, confound" , "Dumbfound" , "Disconcert" , "Building's base" , "Bottom surface" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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