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Innovative way to make dog run? (6-8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

ground-breaking

'innovative' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'way to make dog run?' is the wordplay.
'way' becomes 'breaking' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'to' says to put letters next to each other (I've seen this in other clues).
'make' is an anagram indicator.
'dog'+'run'='dogrun'
'dogrun' with letters rearranged gives 'ground'.
'breaking' after 'ground' is 'GROUND-BREAKING'.

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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