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I call round on, in the evening (7)

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I believe the answer is:

ironing

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'evening' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both to do with contact as well as being present participle verbs.
Perhaps you can see an association between them that I don't see?

'i call round on' is the wordplay.
'call' becomes 'ring ' (synonyms).
'round' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'ring' going around 'on' is 'roning'.
'i'+'roning'='IRONING'

'in the' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for ironing that I've seen before include "Making clothes smooth" , "Household chore" , "Laundry work" , "Smoothing clothes, etc" , "Pressing and smoothing" .)

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