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Kitchen item increasingly just overlooked at first (5)

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airer

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(Other definitions for airer that I've seen before include "Support for drying" , "Stand" , "Clothes-horse" , "Laundry drying frame" , "Broadcaster" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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