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Fleece coats from down under (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

scam

'fleece' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)

'coats from down under' is the wordplay.
'coats' becomes 'macs' (mac is a kind of coat).
'from down under' shows that the letters should be reversed in order (in a down clue, letters written from bottom to top).
'macs' backwards is 'SCAM'.

(Other definitions for scam that I've seen before include "A modern kind of swindle" , "Rip-off" , "Fraudulent business scheme" , "fiddle" , "rook" .)

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