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Lots sleep on ends of nails (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

dozens

'lots' is the definition.
(synonyms)

'sleep on ends of nails' is the wordplay.
'sleep' becomes 'doze' (doze means to sleep).
'on' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other) (in a down clue, letters appear on others).
'ends of' says to hollow out the word (remove centre letters).
'nails' with its middle taken out is 'ns'.
'doze'+'ns'='DOZENS'

(Other definitions for dozens that I've seen before include "Large numbers" , "Sets of twelve" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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