Indoors, surprisingly, could be damper (7)

I believe the answer is:

sordino

'be damper' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'indoors surprisingly' is the wordplay.
'surprisingly' indicates an anagram.
'indoors' is an anagram of 'SORDINO'.

'could' is the link.

I've seen this clue in The Times.

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