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Many tiny flies around Oscar providing invisibility (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

anonymity

'invisibility' is the definition.

'many tiny flies around oscar' is the wordplay.
'flies' indicates anagramming the letters.
'around' indicates putting letters inside.
'oscar' becomes 'o' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.).
'many'+'tiny'='manytiny'
'manytiny' with letters rearranged gives 'annymity'.
'annymity' enclosing 'o' is 'ANONYMITY'.

'providing' is the link.

(Other definitions for anonymity that I've seen before include "State of being unknown or nameless" , "State of not being known" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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