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It's wrong to stare wildly around as one dresses (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

attires

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'one dresses' is the definition.
('attire' can be a synonym of 'dress')

'it's wrong to stare wildly around' is the wordplay.
'it' becomes ''t' (abbreviation. e.g. in 'tis).
'wrong' becomes 'i' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'to' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'wildly' indicates anagramming the letters.
'around' is an insertion indicator.
'stare' with letters rearranged gives 'atres'.
't'+'i'='ti'
'ti' going inside 'atres' is 'ATTIRES'.

'as' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for attires that I've seen before include "Clothes" , "Dresses" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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