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Games authority found in hollow place outside yard (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

hoyle

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

'hollow place outside yard' is the wordplay.
'hollow place' becomes 'hole' (I have seen 'Nasty place ' mean 'hole' so perhaps 'place' could also mean 'hole'. I am not sure about the 'hollow' bit.).
'outside' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'yard' becomes 'y' (abbreviation).
'hole' going around 'y' is 'HOYLE'.

'found in' is the link.

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(Other definitions for hoyle that I've seen before include "English writer on card games" , "cosmologist" , "English astrophysicist, who coined the term "big bang", d. 2001" , "Sir Fred(erick) -, British astronomer" , "English astronomer who rejected the 'Big Bang' theory of the origins of the universe, d. 2001" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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