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Garden style is supreme and surprisingly airy (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

topiary

'garden style' is the definition.
(topiary is shaping shrubs or bushes)

'supreme and surprisingly airy' is the wordplay.
'supreme' becomes 'top' (the supreme or best).
'and' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'surprisingly' indicates an anagram (a surprising ordering of the letters).
'airy' is an anagram of 'iary'.
'top'+'iary'='TOPIARY'

'is' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for topiary that I've seen before include "Gardening skill" , "Art of clipping shrubs into ornamental shapes" , "I pray to find ornamental shrub clipping" , "fancy hedging?" , "Clipping trees to shape" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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