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Indicate there's nothing in making a bed (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

bode

'indicate' is the definition.
(boding is a kind of indicating)

'nothing in making a bed' is the wordplay.
'nothing' becomes 'O' (looks like zero - 0).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'making' is an anagram indicator.
'bed' anagrammed gives 'bde'.
'o' placed into 'bde' is 'BODE'.

'there's' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for bode that I've seen before include "Augur (well or ill)" , "Waited" , "predict" , "Augur, foreshadow" , "Portend, foretell" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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