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Happy Tory excited about good layout of text (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

typography

'layout of text' is the definition.

'happy tory excited about good' is the wordplay.
'excited' is an anagram indicator.
'about' indicates putting letters inside.
'good' becomes 'g' (abbreviation).
'happy'+'tory'='happytory'
'happytory' with letters rearranged gives 'typoraphy'.
'typoraphy' enclosing 'g' is 'TYPOGRAPHY'.

(Another definition for typography that I've seen is " Art of printing".)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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