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Fix eg Oxford house's exterior with flipping unpleasant look about it (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

reheel

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'fix eg oxford' is the definition.
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'house's exterior with flipping unpleasant look about it' is the wordplay.
'house' becomes 'h'.
'exterior with' becomes 'e' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'flipping' says the letters should be written backwards.
'unpleasant look' becomes 'leer' (I've seen this before).
'about it' means one lot of letters goes inside another (some letters go around or about others).
'leer' backwards is 'reel'.
'h'+'e'='he'
'he' put within 'reel' is 'REHEEL'.

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(Other definitions for reheel that I've seen before include "What shoe repairers do" , "Repair shoes" , "Mend part of a shoe" , "Snobs no longer do this" , "provide further basis for good standing" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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