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Look to cover English races in paper (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

gazette

'paper' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'look to cover english races' is the wordplay.
'look' becomes 'gaze' (gaze is a kind of look**).
'to cover' indicates putting letters inside.
'english' becomes 'e' (abbreviation).
'races' becomes 'tt' (Isle of Man Tourist Trophy races).
'e'+'tt'='ett'
'gaze' enclosing 'ett' is 'GAZETTE'.

'in' is the link.

(Other definitions for gazette that I've seen before include "Journal, newspaper" , "paper" , "Journal; publish mil. post" , "Official newspaper" , "Official publication" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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