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Making sense of stuffing uniform top to bottom (6,2)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

adding up

'making sense' is the definition.
('add up' can be a synonym of 'make sense')

'stuffing uniform top to bottom' is the wordplay.
'stuffing' becomes 'adding' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'uniform' becomes 'u' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.).
'to bottom' says to take the final letters.
The last letter of 'top' is 'p'.
'adding'+'u'+'p'='ADDING UP'

'of' is the link.

(Another definition for adding up that I've seen is " Making sense of".)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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