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Look at interior of renovated maisonette, scorning mat (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

seeinto

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'maisonette scorning mat' is the definition.
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'look at interior of renovated' is the wordplay.
'look at' becomes 'seein' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'interior of' means to look at the middle letters.
'renovated' becomes 'restored' (similar in meaning).
The middle letters of 'restored' are 'to'.
'seein'+'to'='SEEINTO'

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