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How to make Aryan invent excuse? (4,1,4)

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I believe the answer is:

spin a yarn

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'how to' is the definition.
I know nothing about this answer so I cannot judge whether this works.

'aryan invent excuse?' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
an anagram of 'aryan' is 'nayar' which is present in the answer.
'invent' could be 'spin' (spinning is a kind of inventing) and 'spin' is present in the answer.
This accounts for all the letters.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

'make' is the link.

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(Other definitions for spin a yarn that I've seen before include "A textile worker might" , "Pin Aryans down to tell a tall or invented story" , "tell a complicated story?" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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