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Italian aunt arranged to go round small capitals (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

tuscan

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'italian' is the definition.
(Tuscan is an example)

'aunt arranged to go round small capitals' is the wordplay.
'arranged' indicates anagramming the letters.
'to go round' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'small capitals' becomes 'sc' (this could be a standard abbreviation which I don't know about).
'aunt' is an anagram of 'tuan'.
'tuan' going around 'sc' is 'TUSCAN'.

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(Other definitions for tuscan that I've seen before include "European" , "Italian dialect spoken in Florence" , "Relating to a region of Italy" , "Italian inhabitant of what was once Etruria" , "Classical architecture" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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