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Kind of diamond not reduced in price (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

uncut

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'kind' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are adjectives. Maybe you can see an association between them that I don't see?

'diamond not reduced in price' is the wordplay.
'diamond not' becomes 'u' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'reduced' means to remove the first letter.
'price' becomes 'cut price' (cut price is a kind of price).
'in' with its initial letter taken off is 'n'.
'u'+'n'+'cut'='UNCUT'

'of' is the link.

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for uncut that I've seen before include "Complete, untrimmed" , "(Of a diamond) rough" , "Descriptive of raw diamonds" , "Unexpurgated" , "diamonds, originally" .)

I've seen this clue in The Globe and Mail.
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