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Kill without beginning to turn grey (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

slaty

'grey' is the definition.
(similar in meaning)

'kill without beginning to turn' is the wordplay.
'kill' becomes 'slay' (slaying is a kind of killing).
'without' means one lot of letters goes inside another ('without' can be similar in meaning to 'outside').
'beginning to' says to take the initial letters.
The first letter of 'turn' is 't'.
'slay' placed around 't' is 'SLATY'.

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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