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Looks over Poland's capital, covered in annoying creatures (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

inspects

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'looks over' is the definition.
('inspect' can be a synonym of 'look over')

'poland's capital covered in annoying creatures' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'covered' could be 'in' (I've seen this in other clues) and 'in' is present in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for inspects that I've seen before include "Scrutinises" , "acts as an Observer" , "Examines carefully" , "Looks closely at something" , "Examines, subjects to scrutiny" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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