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Look over rental income tips that might appeal to high flyers (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

eyrie

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'look over rental income tips that might appeal to high flyers' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I can't understand how they can define each other.

'look over rental income tips' is the wordplay.
'look' becomes 'eye' (eyeing is a kind of looking).
'over' indicates putting letters inside.
'tips' indicates taking the first letters (tip can refer to the top end of something).
The first letters of 'rental income' is 'ri'.
'eye' placed around 'ri' is 'EYRIE'.

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(Other definitions for eyrie that I've seen before include "An eagle's nest (5)" , "point of observation" , "high point" , "Inaccessible spot" , "home hard to reach" .)

I've seen this clue in the Irish Times (Crosaire) and The Irish Times.
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