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Keeping key articles out of American daily? (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

custody

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'keeping' is the definition.
(I know that custody is a type of keeping)

'key articles out of american daily?' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'key' could be 'd' (musical key) and 'd' is located in the answer.
'of' could be 'o' and 'o' is found within the answer.
'american' could be 'us' (United States) and 'us' is present in the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

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(Other definitions for custody that I've seen before include "lock-up?" , "State of being detained by the police" , "One of spelt out words" , "State of being under arrest" , "Charge" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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