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Grants wholly over the top in wealthy south (6)

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I believe the answer is:

allows

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'grants' is the definition.
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'wholly over the top in wealthy south' is the wordplay.
'wholly' becomes 'all' (synonyms).
'over' means one lot of letters go next to another (in a down clue, some letters go over others).
'the top in wealthy south' becomes 'ows' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'all'+'ows'='ALLOWS'

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(Other definitions for allows that I've seen before include "Grants leave" , "Permits to do something" , "Tolerates" , "Gives permission" , "Sallow (anag.)" .)

I've seen this clue in The Sunday Times and The Times.
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