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Forged art, say, is wrong (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

astray

'is wrong' is the definition.
(going astray is going wrong)

'forged art say' is the wordplay.
'forged' indicates anagramming the letters.
'art'+'say'='artsay'
'artsay' anagrammed gives 'ASTRAY'.

(Other definitions for astray that I've seen before include "Wandering, off course" , "Philip -, English twentieth century poet" , "Wandering lost" , "in the wrong place" , "(Gone) off course" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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