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Make sense of publicity trick, mostly (3,2)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

add up

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'make sense' is the definition.
(synonyms)

'publicity trick mostly' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'publicity' could be 'ad' (short for advert) and 'ad' is found within the answer.
The remaining letters 'dup' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

'of' is the link.

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(Other definitions for add up that I've seen before include "Do sums" , "Point to a reasonable conclusion" , "Total; make sense" , "Aggregate, get total" , "Seem consistent or reasonable - arithmetically?" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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