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Golf and aquatic sport becoming more popular? (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

growing

'becoming more popular?' is the definition.
(as in growing popularity)

'golf and aquatic sport' is the wordplay.
'golf' becomes 'g' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.).
'and' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'aquatic sport' becomes 'rowing' (rowing is an aquatic sport).
'g'+'rowing'='GROWING'

(Other definitions for growing that I've seen before include "On the increase" , "Developing, maturing" , "Increasing in magnitude" , "crescent" , "Increasing in size and changing" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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